Salvador Dali — "I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow …"

"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…"

"The only difference between me and a surrealist is that I am a surrealist."

"One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams."

"I would like to spit on the grave of Picasso."

"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Dalí."