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!
I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
I do not believe in my death.
Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
I will be sof brief, I have already finished.
Happy is he who causes a scandal
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Drawing is the honesty of the art.
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.
Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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.
Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead
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