There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador DaliRead
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
Interpretation
Embracing confusion can lead to greater creativity and vitality.
Salvador Dali suggests that to foster creativity, one must challenge the norms and embrace contradictions. By introducing chaos and confusion into the creative process, individuals can break free from conventional constraints, allowing for the emergence of new ideas and perspectives that enrich life.
In practice
In an art class, when discussing the process of breaking traditional boundaries.
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
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!
The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
I want to tell stories that are true and that resonate and move people, that highlight both the tremendous beauty and ugliness available in the human experience.
Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.
There's so little representation of people who look like me behind the camera that it makes you want to say yes to any opportunity out of desperation. It puts you in a situation where you can't make your best work. Diversity for cheap.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
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