“So little of what could happen does happen.”

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

“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.”

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”

“One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.”

“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?”

“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.”