Salvador Dali

... 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 ...

... I don't do drugs - I am drugs ...

... Let my enemies devour each other ...

... The only thing that the world will not have enough of is exaggeration ...

... The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels - It is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant ...

... It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning ...

... Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad ...

... The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot ...

... Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing ...

... Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings ...

... The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents ...

... There is only one difference between a madman and me - The madman thinks he is sane - I know I am mad ...

... Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them - On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly - After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them ...

... Do not bother about being modern - Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid ...

... Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism - Money is a glory ...

... Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality ...

... Have no fear of perfection - You will never reach it ...

... Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality ...

... Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali ...

... The reason that some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures ...

Eugenio Salvador Dalí was with out doubt, a genius. At the age of 14 exhibit his works to critics, often was (and is still some times), misunderstood. When 22 meet Picasso and also was fired from the art school. Few years latter begun to be part of Paris surrealist´s group and there, start the relationship with Gala, that will go on until 1982 when she died. At the age of 79 Dalí painted his last work and past away in 1989 at the age of 85.

1903 Premature death of his older brother Salvador. 1904 An artist is born in Figueres, Spain, at forty five minutes after eight o'clock on May 11; Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí. 1908 Ana María, his younger sister, is born. His only female model... until Gala came into picture! 1914 Attends a private painting school. 1918 His first exhibition. 1921 Goes to an Art School in Madrid. 1921 His mother dies. 1923 He separated a year from school. 1924 Arrested due to politic suspitions. 1924 André Breton surrealism manifest. 1925 Back to Art Scholl. 1925 Met Garcia Lorca in Cadaques. 1926 He is expelled from Art School. 1926 Meets Pablo Picasso. 1926 First Trip to Paris. 1927 Concludes his military service. 1927 Joan Miró visits him in Cadaqués. 1929 Meets other Surrealists and Elena Dimitrovna Diakonova (Gala). 1929 Collaborates with Luis Bruñuel with the film "Un Chien Andalou" (An Andalutian Dog). 1930 Begins to develop the critical-paranoiac method. 1930 Second film with Bruñuel "L'age d'or" (The Golden Age). 1931 He introduces his famous soft watches. 1933 First exhibition in NYC. 1934 Individual exhibition in London. 1934 Dali goes to NYC. 1935 Defines the critical-paranoiac method. 1937 Went to Italy; away from the civil war in Spain. 1938 Dali is part of the surrealist exhibition in Paris. 1938 Leaves Italy. 1938 Met Sigmund Freud. 1939 Dali goes to France. 1940 Dali and Gala go to the US. 1942 Publication of "The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí". 1944 Publication of his first novel "Hidden Faces". 1945 Becomes interested in nuclear physics. 1945 Works with Alfred Hitchcock producing the dream sequences of his film "Spellbound". 1946 Made some drawings for Walt Disney. 1948 Returns to Europe; to Port Lligart... 1956 Washington exhibition. 1958 Dali and Gala meet the Pope. 1958 Marries Gala. 1964 Tokio exhibition. 1964 Publication of "Diary of a Genius". 1971 3D (stereoscopic) experiments. 1978 Spanish King goes to Dali's museum in Figueres. 1982 Gala dies. 1983 His last painting. 1986 Suffers a fire accident in his castle. 1989 Salvador Dali Dies.