I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

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.

True friendship is a house where we can take off our masks.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness, It's Intimacy

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm.