I don't take drugs: I am drugs.

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.

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?

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

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

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.

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!