Salvador Dalí

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

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

Hay dos clases de fumadores, querida: la de los que fuman para crear un ambiente, una atmósfera para sí mismos y que se hartan tan pronto como lo consiguen; y la de los que fuman, sencillamente, porque están hartos del ambiente. Los primeros pertenecen a la clase de los estetas, a la clase de los que son ligeramente imbéciles, los Orminys; yo pertenezco a la segunda, que es la legítima, que es dogmática sin tapujos.

Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown — more interesting for everybody.

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

عدم الرضا الجليل هو علامة على أن شيئا ينمو داخل روحي سيمنحني رضا كبيرا

I always paint those vast sandy expanses that go as far as the eye can see. I don't know why; I have never been in North Africa. I suppose it's an atavism of the Arab blood.

Soytarı olan ben değilim, deliliğini gizlemek için ciddiyet oyunu oynayan, şu aklın mantığın almayacağı ölçüde sinsi, bönlüğünden bile habersiz toplum.

No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.

La gente debería verse más como sus retratos y menos como en la vida real

When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.

Let my enemies devour each other

It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.

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

Iskustvo me je naučilo da se čovek, svaki put kada nešto želi da pobedi i u tome ne uspe, razboli. Oni koji gospodare situacijom nisu nikada bolesni, čak i ako je njihov organizam u stvari, svakim danom sve slabiji.