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SALVADOR DALI

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

Salvador Dali at the Surrealist exhibition
Paris, 1938

Denise Bellon (1902-1999)

SALVADOR DALI ~ ON SURREALISM

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

“Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.”
― Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí et son Buste, 1974

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

SALVADOR DALI ~ ON SURREALISM

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

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

Salvador Dalí, painting The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1946

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

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