“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”

“I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.”

“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 reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.”

“When I paint, the Sea RoarsOthers Splash about in the bath”

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

“I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.”