You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

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.

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

The journey is my home.

I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

When you're on the road a lot, you're in perpetual search of a good night's sleep.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

I’ve never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

The hunger of passions is the greatest disease.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

I'm no beauty queen, I'm just beautiful me

I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.