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?

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

The true painter must be able, before an infinite panorama, to limit himself to reproducing a single ant.

//What is surrealism?//A spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and systematic objectivity of the associations and interpretations of delirious phenomena.

Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.