“I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.”

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The more you love, the more you suffer.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill.

I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

Someday death will take us to another star.

There is peace even in the storm

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali.

I believe that there is no doubts about who I am, an artist who loves music, above everything.

If I wasn’t a singer, I’d be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

True artists are prophets. I don’t want to be that prophetic in that sense because it’s so lonely.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

I see a woman who is rather calm because she doesn’t know what is waiting for her in her life after this. I was still not “that woman” who was hated by the public. I was an artist with fresh ideas.

Everybody’s an artist. Everybody’s God. It’s just that they’re inhibited.