There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!

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

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

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?

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.

For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.