People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

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

Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

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