If I'm Going To Be Anything More

The Fact I Myself Do Not Understand What My Paintings Mean While I Am Painting Them Does Not Imply That They Are Meaningless.

Whatever Happens, My Audience Mustn't Know Whether I Am Spoofing Or Being Serious; And Likewise I Mustn't Know Either. I Am In A Constant Interrogation; When Does The Deep And Philosophically Valid Dali Begin, And Where Does The Looney And Preposterous Dali End?

This Grandiose Tragedy That We Call Modern Art.

[my Art Is] Capable Of Liberating Man From The Tyranny Of The 'practical, Rational World.'

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.