We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. - Salvador Dalí

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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

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About Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist, born in Catalonia, Spain. He was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work and his exceptional way of life and expression.

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Native Name: Salvador Dalí i Domènech
Alternative Names: Dalí Felip Jacint Domenech Felip Jacint Domènech Salvador Dali Salvador Dali Domenech Salvador Dali i Domenech Salvador Dali y Domenech Salvador Dalm y Domenech Salvador Dalí Domènech Salvador Dalí y Domènech Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech Salvador Felip Jacint Dali Domenech Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali Domenech Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech Salvator Dali Salvator Dalí
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My whole ambition in the pictorial domain is to materialise the images of concrete irrationality with the most imperialist fury of precision. - In order that the world of the imagination and of concrete irrationality may be as objectively evident.. ..as that of the exterior world of phenomenal reality. - The important thing is what one wishes to communicate: the concrete irrational subject. - The means of pictorial expression are placed at the service of this subject.

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