
I am not strange. I am just not normal.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds.

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

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

I do not take drugs. I am drugs.

Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.

Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!

Forever will be you and me.

I do not believe in my death.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

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.

Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

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!

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

The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

Life is too short to remain unnoticed

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ...

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.

Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality ...

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

Let my enemies devour each other

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

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

I never took drugs, because I am drugs

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

I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.

Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead

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

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

So little of what could happen does happen.

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.

To be interesting, one has to provoke.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

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

The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad.

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

I shall be so brief that I have already finished

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

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

I don't need drugs. I am drugs.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.