Birthday: May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Birth Name: Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domenech
Height: 172 cm
Surrealist-turned-catholic painter Dalí worked on various movies as well. While a member of the French surrealist group, he co-wrote Un chien andalou (1929) and L'Âge d'or (1930) with Luis Buñuel. The latter may have marked the beginning of a long-lasting quarrel with the surrealists when Dalí did not agree on Buñuel's ...
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Surrealist-turned-catholic painter Dalí worked on various movies as well. While a member of the French surrealist group, he co-wrote Un chien andalou (1929) and L'Âge d'or (1930) with Luis Buñuel. The latter may have marked the beginning of a long-lasting quarrel with the surrealists when Dalí did not agree on Buñuel's anti-clericalism. While Dalí's painting style became increasingly conventional, he worked on projects with Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock, for whom he wrote the dream sequence of La Maison du docteur Edwardes (1945). Plans on a movie with the Marx Brothers were dropped. The money Dalí earned in Hollywood and elsewhere, along with his racism and his fascination for Europe's fascist dictators, put an end to his relations with the (at that time mostly trotskyist) surrealists, whose leading figure André Breton since nicknamed Dalí "Avida Dollars" (anagram). Show less «
The only difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad.
The only difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad.
Everything leads me to think that, in the near future, reality will be considered exclusively as a m...Show more »
Everything leads me to think that, in the near future, reality will be considered exclusively as a mere state of depression and inactivity of the mind. Show less «
I'm in a permanent state of intellectual erection.
I'm in a permanent state of intellectual erection.
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible re...Show more »
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. Show less «
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
[when asked what was his destiny] To become classic!
[when asked what was his destiny] To become classic!
Take me, I am the drug. Take me, I am the hallucinogenic.
Take me, I am the drug. Take me, I am the hallucinogenic.
Do you know . . . ? Every day, I see new things in the shape of stones.
Do you know . . . ? Every day, I see new things in the shape of stones.
I do not understand why man should be capable of so little fantasy.
I do not understand why man should be capable of so little fantasy.
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to re...Show more »
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. Show less «
Beauty is but the conscious sum of all our perversions.
Beauty is but the conscious sum of all our perversions.
[when asked if he took drugs] I do not DO drugs. I AM drugs!
[when asked if he took drugs] I do not DO drugs. I AM drugs!
