Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.

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 can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

All the physical comes from the mental.

I enjoy bathing, as many Europeans don't.

I found by daily experience, the more I did, the more I might do for God.

Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.