Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.

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

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.