Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?
The difference between false memories and true ones is thesame as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look themost real, the most brilliant.
«No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.»
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
I tried sex once with a woman and it was Gala. It was overated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Frederico Garcia Lorca. It was very painful.
My mother’s death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her… I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.
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.
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.