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.
~ Salvador Dali

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Let me learn only everything that others cannot teach me, that which only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!
~ Salvador Dali

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The skeleton is of the utmost importance. It is always the structure which matters and is all that remains after death.
~ Salvador Dali

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No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.
~ Salvador Dali

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The surer and more devoid of surprises are your means, the more astonishing miracles you will realize.
~ Salvador Dali

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I do not dislike publicity nor do I want it; it is publicity that wants me.
~ Salvador Dali

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About my future I know nothing; I consider myself to be a great mystery.
~ Salvador Dali

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Our ideal is to succeed in producing an art as pure as that of lunatics, but which is not that.
~ Salvador Dali

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In the Surrealist period I wanted to create the iconography of the interior world – the world of the marvelous, of my father Freud. I succeeded in doing it.
~ Salvador Dali

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