Salvador Dalí

I am a very good cook, but I don't eat what I cook.

The long and the short and the tall make a fine S.O.S.

Picasso is the right prime minister of art.

My aim is to create images that haunt, that disturb the mind's eye.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane, I know I am mad.

I want to be Picasso's heir, but not his executor.

The world of the real is mad.

Each morning, when I open my eyes to the so-called 'reality' around me, I experience in fact a moment of ecstatic joy.

I am furious with all the letters I receive about my paintings.

Surrealism is the infinite expansion of the field of awareness.

I dedicate a painting to the Virgin Mary, but I paint it with my left hand.

The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the whole aspect of the earth would have been altered.

I am the first businessman in the history of art.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in painting.

My mother is a poem I never meant to write, and don't know how to read.

The true painter must be able to put everything into a single painting.

I have been very happy tonight, but not only because of the champagne.

Art is the ultimate goal of the creative process.

I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion.

The great temptation is the flesh.