The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

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 don't take drugs: I am drugs.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.