Salvador Dali — "The only difference between me and other people is that I am Dalí."

"First Dalí, after Dalí, Picasso, after this, no others."

"[I] believe in general in death but in the death of Dali absolutely not. [I] believe in my death becoming very – almost impossible."

"The fact that I myself, at the moment of painting, do not understand my own pictures, does not mean that these pictures have no meaning; on the contrary, their meaning is so profound, complex, coheren…"

"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."

"Beauty should be edible, or not at all."