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.

I shall be so brief that I have already finished.

Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

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.

Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future