Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!
Salvador DaliRight now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
Salvador DaliThe two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
Salvador DaliI worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.
Salvador DaliThe famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
Salvador DaliEroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.
Salvador Dali