[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Realize your strengths, accept your weaknesses, but never become someone you don't recognize.

The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!

I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success.

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.