“Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.”

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 you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.

The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.

Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it’s my form of political activism, but it’s also a huge business opportunity.

We have actively worked to share our experience of development with other nations, especially in Asia.

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.