“Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.”
Modesty, it’s safe to say, was not a trait which troubled Dali. The self-professed ‘inimitable’ genius of modernist art is going to be commemorated tomorrow with the Pompidou Centre in Paris opening the biggest retrospective of the artists in over three decades.
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