Salvador Dali — "My ambition is to be Salvador Dalí, and nothing else. I don't want to be an arti…"

"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?"

"The only difference between a good painting and a bad painting is that a good painting can be sold."

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

"A painting is such a minor thing compared to the magic I radiate."

"It is not necessary for the public superego to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."