Spanish painter, surrealist representative. known for much more than its famous and unusual pictures, his imagination get out of his paintings, always looking out of the pre-establish, was a friend of the subconscious. He presented to his exhibitions or conferences with outfits who stole the attention for its lack of consistency. Judged crazy was expelled from the Surrealist movement and even thought that was performed an exorcism. He mentioned on occasion, "The only difference between a madman and me is that I'm not crazy"

After the death of his wife attempted suicide on several occasions. But death took him while he listened his favorite album (Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner) because of a heart attack on January 23, 1989.

 
"There is nothing more surreal than reality"

"Bad taste is creative. It is the domain of biology over the intelligence"

"Whoever wants to interest others has to provoke their"

"We must not fear to perfection, because never reach"

"The clown is not me, but that society unconsciously what monstrously cynical and naive to playing a role seriously to disguise his madness".

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

"I'm much more interested in talking, or being in contact with people who think the opposite of what I think, that those who think the same as I think."

"Time is one of the few important things that we have left."

"I never go back to Mexico. I can not stand being in a country more surreal that my paintings."

Fiesta in figueres, 1916

Salvador Dalí