Salvador Dali

I am a very serious man. I am a very serious artist. But I am also a very serious clown.

The fact that I myself, at the moment of painting, do not understand my own pictures, does not mean that these pictures have no meaning; on the contrary, their meaning is so profound, complex, coherent, and involuntary that it escapes the most simple analysis of logical intuition.

I am not interested in being an artist. I am interested in being a legend.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Dalí.

My ambition is to be Salvador Dalí, and nothing else. I don't want to be an artist, I want to be Dalí.

I am not an eccentric. I am merely a man who likes to be noticed.

The only difference between a good artist and a bad artist is that a good artist steals his ideas from other artists, while a bad artist steals them from himself.

I do not believe in my death. I believe in the death of others.

The public is accustomed to seeing me as a clown. But I am a very serious clown.

I would like to be a woman, but I do not want to be a housewife.

I am a Catholic, but I do not believe in God.

The only difference between me and a surrealist is that I am a surrealist.

What is a genius? A genius is a man who knows how to use his mind, his body, and his spirit to produce something that is new and original.

I have invented nothing. I have merely revealed what was already there.

The only thing I fear is not being Dalí.

I am a living monument to myself.

I adore my wife. She is a genius. She is a saint. She is a monster.

The two most important things in the world are sex and death. And I am interested in both.