Salvador Dali

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali - from Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, by Pierre Cabanne, 1987, pp. 13-14
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.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad

Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it.

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

- Salvador Dali