Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.

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 only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have probably forgotten far more than we now remember.

As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged.

A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.