[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

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

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

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

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

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 will be sof brief, I have already finished.