Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.

To be interesting, one has to provoke.

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

You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!

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.