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"Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches."
"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images."
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
"To be interesting, one has to provoke."
"Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!"
"Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I."
"And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God."
"Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets"
"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
"The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it."
"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob."
"Forever will be you and me."
"It is either easy or impossible."
"It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."
"I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful."
"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 this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?"
"I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone."
"I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry."
"Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure."