There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. - Salvador Dalí

النقد شيء رفيع وسامٍ ، ولا يستحقه إلا العباقرة

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

In the degree that the images of concrete irrationality approach phenomenal reality, the corresponding means of expression approach those of the great realist painters - Velasquez and Vermeer of Delft - to paint realistically according to irrational thought, according to the unknown imagination.