"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."

"What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms."

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

"Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I."

"The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it."

"At the age of six years I wanted to be a chef. At the age of seven I wanted to be Napoleon. My ambitions have continued to grow at the same rate ever since."

"Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties."

"I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful."

"I do not take drugs. I am drugs."

"You know le worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is le worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were le most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn’t know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to le movies or le theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. Le people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!"