“Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.”

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.

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.

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.

Happy is he who causes a scandal.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

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

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

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.

Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?” Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.

The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.

I do not believe in my death.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

If only were my skin like art shining against the mould, if only my body were a canvas brave if only.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

I was born from nature therefore, I am art.

Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.

To be an artist is to look at a tragedy and innately see the beauty in it.

Will you stay up late with me tonight? sit quietly while I write you into a piece of art that will be a marvel for the ages?

The art to breathe and smile despite the pressure of anxiety, takes courage and power, keep appreciating yourself.

It is an act of courage every time you create. Stay brave.