Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.

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.

Be happy by forgiving or forgetting or doing both, but we can gain no happiness by holding grudges.

A sincere call to the Almighty can change what you may have thought was impossible to change. Never lose hope.

Everything in its own time. If your time is not right now, your right now may be soon.

There's always little things that you can find to incorporate, I think, from your life, whether it be the exact circumstance or something similar that maybe brought up a similar emotion in you.

Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and don't get to discover any others.

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

We shall never understand peace, justice and the living of life until we recognize that all people are human and that humans are the most precious things on earth.