very important mustache talk

birth of the modern novel

Miguel de Cervantes' 17th century Don Quixote aims to change a world he does not like and cannot understand.

Salvador Dali image source here.

creative minds

Salvador Dali and Man Ray photographed by Carl Van Vechten, Paris, 1934

the links between mental illness and creativity here.

bonzo

Doctor Rock

Can you believe that a straight man to a chimpanzee is going to be the next President of the United States? I mean, doesn't that depress you?

Oliver Stone's 1986 Salvador screenplay here.

logarithmic cauliflowers

Salvador Dali was the richest artist of the 20th Century. No teachers knew as much as he did, he thought, which is why he refused to take his final academic exams.

Mike Wallace's 1958 Dali interview here.

An earlier reference to Dali on this blog here.