The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

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.

Prose: words in their best order

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

The power of waiting is gracious.

The devil is ready to do anything for us not to attain our goal

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

I try to be realistic, listen to my body and know when to slow down.

I do love exercise. I do love yoga, which keeps my body nice and healthy.

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.

Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.