[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

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.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.

Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.

The most important thing any woman can do is promote her inner well-being

Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.

Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

True love hates and will not bear delay.

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience.