If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

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.

An attitude of gratitude goes a long way when it comes to physical and emotional healing.

Simple and plain things can touch your heart very easily! If you can be simple and plain, you can touch every heart!

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must celebrate our independence everyday, not just on one day of the year.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

God will not be outdone in generosity.

Sorry. I'm not, like, medieval torture expert guy.

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

The ends do not justify the means