The native Catalonian was obsessed with both money and fame; painting and speaking were his main occupations, his favourite subject how to discover one`s genius. Not exactly loved by the Surrealists, who criticized him for extravagance and his addiction to money (it was Andre Breton who came up with the anagram "Avida Dollars"), Dal̥s paranoiac-critical method nonetheless provided them with a first-rate instrument to liberate intelligence and imagination from the bonds of memory or dreams.
Had he been born during the Renaissance, his genius would have met with greater acceptance than was the case in our era, which saw him as a constant source of provocation; he, for his part, described it as degenerate. DalÌ commend: "The only difference between me and a madam is the fact that I am not mad", remarking pithily that "The difference between the Surrealists and myself is that I am a Surrealist". DalÌ decodes the fantasies and symbols of his Surrealist visions, penetrating the depths of the irrational and subconscious, elevating hard and soft to the level of aesthetic principles.
He and Gala, his wife and muse, are a mythical couple, she his existential double, his perpetuation in immoral memory.
At the age of three, DalÌ wanted to became a cook, aged five Napoleon.
Thereafter, he continually aspired to something higher - to be divine
DalÌ forever...
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