Salvador Dali

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.

[I got my start in the art world] before one month, before new life, before born, you know?... Because my first concrete memories is intra uterine (sic) memories…

Before I was born it was completely paradise… the moment of [being] born is the moment the paradise is lost. Death is the regain of this paradise.

[I] believe in general in death but in the death of Dali absolutely not. [I] believe in my death becoming very – almost impossible.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

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

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

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

It's curious, I'm much more interested in talking, or to be in touch with the people who think the opposite as I think, than to those who think the same as me.

I'm never alone. I have the habit of always being with Salvador Dalí. Believe me, that is a permanent party.

There are only two evil things that can happen to you in life, being Pablo Picasso or not being Salvador Dalí.

Cannibalism is one of the most evident manifestations of tenderness.

If I die, I won't completely die.

At six years old I wanted to be a cooker, at seven I wanted to be Napoleon. My ambition has done nothing more than grow; now I just want to be Salvador Dalí and nothing else. On the other hand, this is very hard because as I get near Salvador Dalí, he walks away from me.

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

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.

Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache—it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: 'Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?' Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.

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?