Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

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

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

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?

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

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!