Salvador Dali

1904 - 1989 Spanish painter CUBIST, FUTURIST, who eventually joined and became the foremost painter of the SURREALIST movement. In addition, he wrote the screenplay for LUIS BUNUEL'S UN CHIEN ANDALOU. He also wrote poetry.

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

DALI painted the painting (below) from this photograph.

"PORTRAIT OF GALA WITH TWO LAMB CHOPS BALANCED ON HER SHOULDER"

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

"THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY"

"CRUCIFIXION ('CORPUS HYPERCUBUS')"

"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die." SALVADOR DALI

"THE PERSIMPSONS OF MEMORY?" by MATT GROENING

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."

A collage of some of Dali's works

"APPARITION OF FACE AND FRUIT DISH ON A BEACH"

"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali."

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."

"Dalil is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue." ANDRE BRETON

POSTSCRIPT "A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity." ROBERT FROST

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