Salvador Dali — "I am a very serious man. I am a very serious artist. But I am also a very seriou…"

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."

"I am painting pictures which make me die for joy, I am creating with an absolute naturalness, without the slightest aesthetic concern, I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I …"

"I am not an eccentric. I am merely a man who likes to be noticed."

"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."

"Tradition brings something original, but we mustn't forget that is also drags along a lot of dust. The penalty for taking over habits is to find one self a prisoner of false academicism and ossified v…"