Salvador Dalí

“It is under such cultural circumstances that our contemporaries, systematically cretinised by the mechanicism and the architecture of auto”

“The Italian metaphysical movement [initiated by De Chirico ] started from the spiritual reality, a consequence of the physical miracle and it aspects grouped on an immaterial plane; all this formed a new spectral reality, in order to attain maximal, almost erotic creativity in touch. The Cubists , on the other hand, starting from this sensual”

“One might think that through ecstasy we would have access to a world as far from reality as that of the dream.”

“In the early 1930's Dalí was judged by a surrealist 'high court' at André Breton 's flat; Dali was accused of 'counter”

“So, André Breton , if tonight I dream I am screwing you, tomorrow morning I will paint all of our best fucking positions with the greatest wealth of detail. Quote, early 1930's; as quoted by Jonathan Jones in his article 'André in wonderland'; The Guardian / Culture, 16 June, 2004”

“One morning with Ripolin [French paint] I painted a new”

“The more I looked at his face [of Saint Sebastian ] the more curious it seemed. That said, I seemed to have always known it and the aseptic morning light revealed its smallest details which such clarity, such purity, that I was impossible moved.. .In the upper part of the heliometer was St. Sebastian's magnifying glass.. .I put my eye to the magnifying glass, product of a slow distillation, at once numerical and intuitive. Each drop of water a number. Each drop of blood a geometry. Quote from his poem 'Sant Sebastia', Salvador Dali 1927”

“Dali is striving then for a rational approach of his paintings; he is very probably referring to his painting, he made earlier in 1927: ' Little Ashes'”

“Just now I'm painting a beautiful woman, smiling, burnt to a crisp, with feathers of all colors, held up by a small die of burning marble; the die is in turn held up by a little puff of smoke, churned and quite; in the sky there are asses with parrot”

“Telephone, pedal washbasin, white refrigerators gleaming with Ripolin [French paint], bidet, small phonograph.. ..objects of authentic and pure poetry (MPC p. 11).. ..The Parthenon was not built as a ruin. It was built on a new surface without patina, like our automobiles. / we will not always bear on our shoulders the weight of our father's corpse. Quote, 1920's; MPC p. 13; as quoted in Dali and Me , Catherine Millet ,”