The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.