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 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.

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

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.

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

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.