Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

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

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

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

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

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.

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

He didn't have many friends, but he valued his friendship with Angel. She was kind and giving and one of the few women who didn't look at him like he was an un-caged tiger

I was known for throwing knives.

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

Art and accident are one.

I really want to try to explore the characters from angles you've never seen and keep them classic and iconic.

If you go with that spirit, good things will come for you. If you go into it with an assumption that you're a genius and that you're entitled to something, it's a little tougher.

I started as a standup comic and an actor.

A bull in just about any shop is gonna be a mess.

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.