Men expect so much from me because their minds hold an image of what I should be and what I myself have created - a sex symbol. In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairstyle. You are judged by how you look, not by who you are. Hollywood is a place where they pay you thousands of dollars for a kiss and only fifty cents for your soul.
She revealed herself to me as a woman who made her mutilated body an icon and her pain into art. This explains the many self-portraits, most of which were made lying in bed, where she imagined herself torn apart, with her insides laid open, overgrown with grass and vines.
Gaudí could not stand walls and ceilings, enclosed architectural forms. He considered the sky and the sea the best interior and, to avoid dividing space, invented his own support-free covering system. From the engineering standpoint of the time, it seemed simply impossible.
Dalí's life resembled theatre, performance, an endless citation of the flow of the subconscious. He - or rather they, Dalí and his muse Gala - needed scandal.
He believed in the idea of the unity of man and nature. His style surprises, delights, provokes indignation - but it certainly does not leave one indifferent.