Older Jonas looks back at his youthful indulgent one-year adventure with the ingenious Salvador Dalí, and his astute, lascivious wife, Gala. This Mexican boy was young, beautiful, and filled with dreams of becoming a famous dancer, but the frills of celebrity sucked the very marrow out of him.
PERSISTENCE is a young man's rapturous one year adventure, in the company of most authentic yet extravagant, Salvador Dalí by the side of his shrewd muse, Gala.
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Copyright, Begonya Plaza, Cadaques, 2001
DALI ESQUE-APADES
A prologue to my novel-in-progress
SALVADOR DALI
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."
"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob."
"I am painting pictures which make me die for joy, I am creating with an absolute naturalness, without the slightest aesthetic concern, I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly."
"I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait."
"I don't take drugs: I am drugs."
"The difference between false statements and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant until you look closely."
"I have Dalínian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous."
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
"When I was five years old I saw an insect that had been eaten by ants and of which nothing remained except the shell. Through the holes in its anatomy one could see the sky. Every time I wish to attain purity I look at the sky through flesh."
"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it."
"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
“I am going to my room to masturbate before I have a light lunch, if you would like to come and watch?”
FRASES de Salvador Dalí:
De ninguna manera volveré a México. No soporto estar en un país más surrealista que mis pinturas.
El que quiere interesar a los demás tiene que provocarlos.
El tiempo es una de las pocas cosas importantes que nos quedan.
La mayor desgracia de la juventud actual es ya no pertenecer a ella.
La única diferencia entre un loco y yo es que yo no estoy loco.
El verdadero pintor es aquel que es capaz de pintar escenas extraordinarias en medio de un desierto vacío. El verdadero pintor es aquel que es capaz de pintar pacientemente una pera rodeado de los tumultos de la historia.
Lo único de lo que el mundo no se cansará nunca es de exageración.
Creo que la vida debe ser una fiesta continua.
Los errores tienen casi siempre un carácter sagrado. Nunca intentéis corregirlos. Al contrario: lo que procede es racionalizarlos, compenetrarse con aquellos integralmente. Después, os será posible subliminarlos.
No te empeñes en ser moderno. Por desgracia, hagas lo que hagas, es la única cosa que no podrás evitar ser.
El canibalismo es una de las manifestaciones más evidentes de la ternura.
La existencia de la realidad es la cosa más misteriosa, más sublime y más surrealista que se dé.
Es evidente que existen otros mundos, eso seguro pero, como ya he dicho muchas veces, esos otros mundos están en el nuestro, residen en la tierra y precisamente en el centro de la cúpula del Museo Dalí, donde está todo el nuevo mundo insospechado y alucinante del surrealismo.
Lo importante es que hablen de tí, aunque sea mal.
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