I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

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

If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

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.