Salvador Dali

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

Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.

Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

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

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

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

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

I don't take drugs: I am drugs.

Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.