Dali quotes

  •    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 | hallucinated†the 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.

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