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.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

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

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

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!