We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.