Dali on the reasons for his concentric eccentricity

Dali on the reasons for his concentric eccentricity

Interviewed by Louis PAUWELS, the painter Salvadore DALI admits that he would have liked to live in the time of Raphael but that he also likes to live well today because he considers that his genius shines more today in this world of mediocrity. He sees in all media as well television as radio and press an instrument of cretinization. He then explains why he is so keen to draw attention to himself with his eccentricity, he has just discovered it thanks to his psychiatrist that "he embodies the dioscuric myth", that he tries to kill the image of his dead brother, -that his family loved to give him the same name. He lived all his childhood and adolescence with all the prerogatives and virtues of this dead brother and, to fight against him, he was in fact forced to show concentric eccentricity to assert his personality at the expense of his brother. If he had been someone else, he would have liked to be the Catalan philosopher and theologian Raymond Lulle.

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File : Salvador Dalí

Publication date : 27 December 1959