I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

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.

Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.