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

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!

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

For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.

Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.

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

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