The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.

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

Happy is he who causes a scandal

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.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.