Salvador Dalí

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Salvador Dali,
Salvador Dal

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11 1904 – January 23 1989), was a Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Salvador Dalí's artistic repertoire also included film, sculpture, and photography. He collaborated with Walt Disney on the Academy Award-nominated short cartoon , which was released posthumously in 2003. He also collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on Hitchcock's film Spellbound. Dalí insisted on his "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors who occupied Southern Spain for nearly 800 years (711-1492), and attributed to these origins, "my love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental... full article at wikipedia

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May 11, 1904

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Gala Dalí	1934

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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.	Surrealism
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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.
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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 Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.
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Madrid
Figueres

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Jan 23, 1989

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Figueres

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Un chien andalou

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L'Âge d'Or	Nov 29, 1930
Un chien andalou	Jun 26, 1929
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Lobster Telephone

The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table

The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus

The Madonna of Port Lligat

Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening

The Persistence of Memory

The Great Masturbator

Christ of Saint John of the Cross

The First Days of Spring

The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory

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Federico García Lorca
Man Ray
Alfred Hitchcock
Jonas Mekas

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