(1904 - 1989)
The Spanish Catalan painter Salvador Dalí explored the human subconscious as a space remarkable for its soft, melting watches and decomposed donkeys lying in pianos. He gained prominence in the late 1920s and early 1930s as a member of the Surrealist movement.
The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953Miscellany
“As a young man, he was totally asexual,” Luis Buñuel recalled of Salvador Dalí, elaborating in a parenthetical comment, “Of course, he’s seduced many, particularly American heiresses; but those seductions usually entailed stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the women’s shoulders, and, without a word, showing them to the door.”
