Since I noticed quite a few people here like David Lynch, I was wondering how many of you enjoy Dalí’s art? I’ve always found his work fascinating.
Extensive collection of his paintings: dali-gallery.com/html/paintings.htm
Salvador Dali is awesome. He painted “The Persistence of Memory” and “The Disentegration of The Persistence of Memory” - I prefer the latter.
But yeah, it is really thought-provoking. I used some of his work for my GCSE art class (I thought as we were gonna have to base our work on some artist, might as well be an awesome artist 
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ha ha that smiley is funny.
The Persistence Of Memory is one of my absolute favorites… a simple message in a disturbing yet beautiful dreamscape.
I have a rather large portfolio of his work that I recieved for Christmas, it was expensive as hell but it’s completely worth it. I’ve spent hours on end just examining each painting.
Dalí is the greatest. 
I have a movie file in my computer of him spending over fifteen minutes staring at a camera and repeating “surrealisme” in different tones of voice. 
Dali - exelent.
I have nothing else to say.
(well, I do, but it’s late and i don’t want to type all that.)
Any idea where I could find that? Would be nice to add to my collection of surreal films 
Got mine in an exposition about surrealism. I guess you can just search the net, it’s so old it probably does’t even have copyrights any more.
Dali (how do you get the accent?) is by far my favorite artist.
I think the main reason I like his work is because my fifth grade teacher was a very strange man, strange in the way that Dali is strange. He had the Persistence of Memory foremost among the clutter (very sophisticated, weird and profound clutter, I would say) and he always introduced my class to new ways of thinking. His favorite quote was, “You say weird like it’s a bad thing.”
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Oh, I forgot to say that The Persistence of Memory is my favorite of his works.
I reproduced the persistance of memory on a memory for art class once. I did a pencil portrait of him in vegetable for the same class. 
I’ve looked at him. I think he described his elephants as having “long legs of desire” or something–what’s that all about?
Salvador Dalí [size=109]ROCKS![/size] 
See, I love that kind of weirdness—the kind eccentric that Dalí was, which was why I thought he was so awesome when I decided to do some research on him. You know, this topic reminds me of a dream I once had in which I was in a lake full of all kinds of these odd monster’s behind Dalí’s house. I even wrote that one down.
Yeah, yeah, we all know The Persistence of Memory, but I particularly like his creation of the Lobster Telephone. 
That killed me when I first read it.
Has anyone seen Un Chien Andalou? (Dali and Bunuel’s movie)
Fascinating film.
Lol, yea. Salvador Dali, like most of the emerging Surrealists, was greatly influenced by the work of Sigmund Freud (creator of the psychosexual theory) who was also popular at the time. It was post-World War I and everyone wanted an explanation for what just happened and also an escape from all that happened. I mean this is the same guy who painted “The Great Masturbator.” 
Me, I actually prefer Dali’s later paintings that his wife convinced him to do ( the _____ era of his works, I can’t remember exactly). These, he was actually was originally famous for before they pulled out the Persistence of Memory and the like and said they changed their minds; its not dirt, it was history in the making. 
