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Quotes of the Day for 11 May 2005 - Salvador Dali

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born Figueras, Spain on this day in 1904. He was born nine months after an older brother died and his parents babied and spoiled him enough for two, actually believing that the second Salvador Dali was the reincarnation of the first. He had his first exhibition of impressionist works at age thirteen. He entered Acadamia de San Fernando in 1922 and shifted to cubism, failing to graduate when he refused to take his final exams on the grounds that he knew more than the instructors. A few years later he had turned to surrealism, his most famous work, Persistence of Memory, which featured clocks melting, came in 1931. He had an exquisite photo-realistic painting style, an incredible ego, a finely honed sense of self promotion, and one of the finest mustaches ever.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
     - All from Salvador Dali, 1904 - 1989

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