“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 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.”

“So little of what could happen does happen.”

“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?”