Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.