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

"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."

"I am not interested in being an artist. I am interested in being a legend."

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

"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."