Biografia

He had an older brother also named Salvador Dalí (October 12, 1901-August 1, 1903)that died at the young age of 1 year and 9 months, from gastroenteritis. Consumed with pain, Dalí's parents wasted no time in begetting another child. He was born nine months later and was named after his brother. This deceased brother was a ghost rival of Dalí's throughout his childhood and was a disturbing influence in his psychological make-up. He grew up under the feeling that the first Salvador Dalí was the real one and he a mere forgery.

In 1945, he signed on with Walt Disney to assist in the development of a film to be entitled "Destino". The film project was cancelled with only 15 seconds of animation completed. The film was finally completed and released in 2003.

Early in his life, Dalí was an admirer of the painter Pablo Picasso and based several of his early paintings on Picasso's cubist style.

He included his wife, Gala Dalí, as a central character in many of his paintings.

A business developer, in total seriousness, approached Dalí with the intention to start a chain of lunch shops decorated with his artwork, and call the chain "Dalícatessen". Dalí responded by calling the business developer a "madman", and refused to accept any further offers.

[when asked if he took drugs] I do not DO drugs. I AM drugs!

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

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

Do you know . . . ? Every day, I see new things in the shape of stones.