It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

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.

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design.

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.