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Because in the modern physics everything is weak, every proton and neutron is surrounded of weakness, of nothing. In this moment the most fantastic thing in physics is le anti-matter. Every new physician talk about anti-matter, and Dali paint, 20 years ago, le first anti-matter angels.

Salvador Dali

Only as Picasso is an anarchist, after having knifed Bouguereau half to death, he was going to give the puntilla, and finish off modern art at one blow by outuglying, alone, in a single day, the ugly that all the others combined could turn out in several years.

Puntilla: The small dagger to administer the coup de grâce to the bull.

Salvador Dali

Telegram sent to Picasso:

Pablo, thanks! Your last ignominious paintings have killed modern art.

This is just a part of the telegram

Salvador Dali

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

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Born: May 11, 1904

Died: January 23, 1989 (aged 84)

Bio: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Pubol, known as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.

Known for:

The Persistence of Memory (1931)
The Burning Giraffe (1937)
The Elephants (1948)
Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951)

Most used words:

picasso, difference, woman

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