I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

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?

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

I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.

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