I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.

There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

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

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.

The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.