I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.

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.

Moderation leads to Mediocrity, Intensity leads to Excellence.

THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.

Hawaii doesn't win many games in the United States.

Swindlers are notoriously gullible.

I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.

You shall use all your senses to monitor very carefully all that goes on about you, inside and outside.

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.