DALI, the personality

Salvador Dalí was one of the most interesting and controversial personalities in the history of the 20th century. Dalí was a person who fused his life with his work in a way that was both sublime and delirious.
Salvador Dalí said on one occasion, "the only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad," and also, paraphrasing the philosopher Unamuno, "of all madmen I am the least mad, because I am aware of my madness."
Dalí also said that "disorder has to be created systematically, as disorder sets the creative process in motion. Everything that generates contradiction is synonymous with life."
Dalí himself summed up his life by saying, "when I was six years old I wanted to be a cook and when I was seven, Napoleon. Since then my ambition has soared without ceasing."
Salvador Dalí was also one of the first artists to become a mass phenomenon. Dalí displayed his genius in painting, sculpture, design, illustration, literature and the cinema, among many other disciplines. He knew how to use the press and television to reach the general public; and from then on all his activities were always in the news.
Years after his death, his figure and work have continued to arouse admiration throughout the world. Exhibitions, biographical essays, articles and all types of documentaries are devoted to the unceasing study and analysis of the DalÌ phenomenon, in order to satisfy the interest which this arouses and no doubt will continue to arouse for future generations.