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porphyrySomeone in the Dlai community asked for quotes and I supplied the following.
"The differnce between me and a mandman, is that I am not mad."
"When I was three years old I wanted to become a pastry chef. When I was four I wanted to be Napoleon. My ambition has been increasing exponentially every since."
Both by Dali. The Secret Life and especially the 100 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship (quoting the title from memory, might be slightly differnt) are full of these aphorisms.
They are quite logical and rational by the way. The first one means that the madman is detatched from reality becuase he is mad, while Dali is detatched from relaity to an equal degree, but becuase he realizes modern relaity is mad.
The second one is obviosuly a complex pun revolving around the Napoleon pastry (I have not seen the French original but the difference in the usage of articles may make it cleverer in that language), but it also hints at his need to display himself rather than to be a mere creator separate from his work.
Its strange but I always liked the Napoleon one well enough to have memorized it, but I never had any inklging of any meaning it might have. Even when I wrote down the analysis of the madman quote I was thinking," "Pity I can't also say what the other one means for symmetry." But then that interpretation just spilled out like automatic writing. The interpretation I offered is not very profound, I will concede, it is even obvious, but it was a strange sensation to stumble on it like that.
"The differnce between me and a mandman, is that I am not mad."
"When I was three years old I wanted to become a pastry chef. When I was four I wanted to be Napoleon. My ambition has been increasing exponentially every since."
Both by Dali. The Secret Life and especially the 100 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship (quoting the title from memory, might be slightly differnt) are full of these aphorisms.
They are quite logical and rational by the way. The first one means that the madman is detatched from reality becuase he is mad, while Dali is detatched from relaity to an equal degree, but becuase he realizes modern relaity is mad.
The second one is obviosuly a complex pun revolving around the Napoleon pastry (I have not seen the French original but the difference in the usage of articles may make it cleverer in that language), but it also hints at his need to display himself rather than to be a mere creator separate from his work.
Its strange but I always liked the Napoleon one well enough to have memorized it, but I never had any inklging of any meaning it might have. Even when I wrote down the analysis of the madman quote I was thinking," "Pity I can't also say what the other one means for symmetry." But then that interpretation just spilled out like automatic writing. The interpretation I offered is not very profound, I will concede, it is even obvious, but it was a strange sensation to stumble on it like that.
