Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali Trivia
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He was influenced by Pablo Picasso and Freud among others.
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He wrote the autobiography The Secret Life of Salvador Dali.
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Dali and his wife Gala went as refugees to the USA during World War II.
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He was expelled from the surrealist movement in 1934.
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He married Gala Eluard in 1934.
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He met his future wife, the Russian-born Gala Eluard, in 1929.
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In his life he worked with people such as Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney.
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In 1929 he became a member of the Surrealist movement, but his works had been influenced by surrealism for two years prior to this.
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The melting watches are significant symbols in Dali's artwork.
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He became a close friend to both Luis Bunuel and Federico García Lorca when he moved to to Madrid in 1922.
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He studied at the Academia de San Fernando, in Madrid, Spain.
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Dali: I am painting pictures which make me die for joy, I am creating with an absolute naturalness, without the slightest aesthetic concern, I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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Dalí: What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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Dalí: I don't do drugs; I am drugs.
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Dalí: The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad.
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Dalí: The only difference between Surrealism and myself is that I am Surrealism.
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