The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

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.

Our joy is not strapped by the confines of our present situation

It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.

Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

The last freedom is choosing your attitude.

I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.