"[I] believe in general in death but in the death of Dali absolutely not. [I] believe in my death becoming very – almost impossible."

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

"I am not interested in being an artist. I am interested in being a legend."

"After Naples yellow, I'm most strongly drawn to the color of oxygen, that is to say blue. In Vermeer, those are the two colors one finds most permanently."

"At six years old I wanted to be a cooker, at seven I wanted to be Napoleon. My ambition has done nothing more than grow; now I just want to be Salvador Dalí and nothing else. On the other hand, this i…"