Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

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.

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom

Silence is a beautiful story.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather than what we have learned intellectually.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

It is better to hope than to mope!

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

I like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job on Boardwalk Empire.

Great offices will have great talents.