I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

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.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my toys will break.So none of the other kids can use 'em....Amen.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

The best part about being a superstar is that you can wear the most outrageous of clothes and they say 'it's in!'

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.

Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.

With swimming, I burn a lot of calories. I'm able to eat pretty much anything and it won't affect me. But I don't.