Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.

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

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

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

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.

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?