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

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction..

Let my enemies devour each other..

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams..

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad..

I am not strange. I am just not normal..

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

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless..

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it..

There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me..

Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, ….

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..

Knowing how to look is a way of inventing..

So little of what could happen does happen..

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things thi….

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

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms..

I do not take drugs. I am drugs..

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..

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings..