Salvador Dali — "I do not believe in my death. I believe in the death of others."

"I was probably a first version of myself, but conceived too much in the absolute."

"I am not a man of this world. I am a man of another world."

"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 must…"

"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 is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?"

"Before I was born it was completely paradise… the moment of [being] born is the moment the paradise is lost."