Salvador Dali — "If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it."

"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…"

"The two most important things in the world are sex and death. And I am interested in both."

"I am a genius, and I am proud of it."

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

"The only difference between a good artist and a bad artist is that a good artist steals his ideas from other artists, while a bad artist steals them from himself."