"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."

"I have invented nothing. I have merely revealed what was already there."

"Life is too short to remain unnoticed."

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