I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.

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

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

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

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

Everything that is contradictory creates life

Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.