Dali Quotes

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

It`s Frank`s painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

I love dreams, even when they`re nightmares, which is usually the case. My dreams are full of the same obstacles, but it doesn`t matter. My amour fou for the dreams themselves as I shared with the surrealists. Un chien andalou (1929) was born of the encounter between my dreams and (Salvador Dalí)`s. Later, I brought the dreams directly into my films, trying as hard as I could to avoid any analysis. `Don`t worry if the movie`s too short`, I once told a Mexican producer. `I`ll just put in a dream.` He was not impressed.

Salvador Dalí seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman`s shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman`s shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.