One ought to be able to hold in one's head simultaneously the
two facts that Dali is a good draughtsman and a
disgusting human being. The one does not invalidate
or, in a sense, affect the other.
- George pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
Quoted in Michael
Shelden Orwell (1991).
It was not in Dal | 's nature to play Gilbert to someone else's Sullivan.
-John Russell
On Salvador Dal | 's death. In the NewYorkTimes,
24 Jan.
When Dal | hallucinatedthe whole world hallucinated with him.
-John Russell
On Salvador Dal | 's death. In the NewYorkTimes,
24 Jan. novel, Elizabeth and her German Garden (1898). After his death in 1910 she married Francis,
2nd Earl Russell, brother of Bertrand (1916, separated 1919). In
later life she spent much time in the US, where she
enjoyed considerable popularity.
Dal | 's importance for the Surrealists at that time, and for art historians now,
is that he found a way to put Freud on canvas.
- Sanford Schwartz
In the New Republic,17 Oct.