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SALVADOR DALI ~ ON CONFUSION

in Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... by

“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life”
― Salvador Dalí

Photo Dali and his wife Gala

DALI ~ ON CONFUSION

in Just a bit of everything and everyone.../Passion Of Art by

“You have to systematically create confusion,
it sets creativity free. Everything that is
contradictory creates life.”
Salvador Dali

SALVADOR DALI ~ ON MEMORIES

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

‘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.”

Salvador Dali

Photo: Salvador Dali and Gala (1936)

SALVADOR DALI AND HIS MUSE GALA

in Muses in a Surreal World by

Gala Dalí (7 September [O.S. 26 August] 1894 – June 10, 1982), usually known simply as Gala, was the wife of first Paul Éluard, then Salvador Dalí, and an inspiration for them and many other writers and artists.

Gala was born Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia, to a family of intellectuals. Among her childhood friends was the poet Marina Tsvetaeva.

She was a muse for Dalí who said that she was the one who saved him from madness and an early death.

SALVADOR DALI ~ ON SURREALISM

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”

Salvador Dali

DALI ~ ON REALITY

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

“One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.”
Salvador Dali

SALVADOR DALI ~ ON DRAWING

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

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

Salvador Dali on Drawing

SALVADOR DALI ~ ON DRUGS

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs. Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.”

Salvador Dali

SALVADOR DALI ~ ON PERFECTION

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
Salvador Dali

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