Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

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?

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath