Don't be afraid of perfection. You will never attain it! - Salvador Dalí

My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.” — Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

كانت لدي خصلة رديئة منذ طفولتي ، وهي أني أعتبر نفسي مختلفا عن الناس العاديين ! وحتى في هذه نجحت .

I always paint those vast sandy expanses that go as far as the eye can see. I don't know why; I have never been in North Africa. I suppose it's an atavism of the Arab blood.