Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.

Forever will be you and me.

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

Everything that is contradictory creates life

Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!