The fact that I myself, at the moment of painting, do not understand my own pictures, does not mean that these pictures have no meaning; on the contrary, their meaning is so profound, complex, coherent, and involuntary that it escapes the most simple analysis of logical intuition.
— Salvador Dali Modern

Surrealist painter

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The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

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1942

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Humorous

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