Salvador Dali On The Meaning Behind His Art | The Dick Cavett Show

i'm talking with satchel paige lillian geisha and salvador dali and i was wondering mr dahle you've done some very mysterious things and i don't know if if you like to be asked what they mean but there was a incident once where you appeared for a lecture in paris at the sorbonne and you arrived in rolls-royce filled with cauliflowers cauliflower i believe you know cauliflower represent exactly the same morphological problem of one horn of rhinoceros can you look careful one cauliflower has plenty of the same pattern of sunflower and you know leonardo da vinci the california is the same pattern as the sunflower exactly the same pattern is crossing logarithmic aspirants and leonardo de vinci discovered for the first time this mathematical phenomenon in the sunflower and later one daly discover thousand times much more powerful mathematical problem in the cauliflower and this is the reason to arrive in the sorbonne because my my speech is around the cauliflower and the horn of rhinoceros because it's the same problem same rhinoceros that you mentioned earlier mathematical pattern do i am i alone in finding you somewhat difficult to follow uh in terms of what your theories are do people often misunderstand you or find you hard too but this is absolutely not interesting but myself uh back in my surrealism for 14 years and today no understand nothing of my board no one understands your work today no allergies is absolutely legitimate other people also know understand because he myself don't understand the author will understand less is it my imagination or are you speaking a mixture of languages no no no all time is the same but didn't you say a word of spanish english english by with uh injection of catalonia catalonia accent catalonia catalonian accent costa brahma yes yes that clears that up too she has a question i hope it's not an imputed one mr dolly but have you from the beginning of your work your great craftsmanship in painting a message to give to the people that we perhaps don't understand no message no message could you invent one important yum against any kind of message you are against your paintings have a very dreamlike quality and i i do find them fascinating i'd like to look at dream because uh is never dream is ip nagogical image hypnagogical image exactly before what is there is 10 minutes before the sleep the 10 minutes or 15 minutes before you fall sleeping appear in some genius in canada some kind of very vividly rational and little petition images and myself catch this image and pain with a more careful photographic style and no message and no explanation sometimes after 20 years some scientific people tell these perhaps means these or this but every of these italian matches remain in one complete mystery i just wanted to do that i don't know why i don't know why i don't know what came over me i'm sorry i i don't i i don't know what you you affect me in a peculiar way and no but you know uh dali daley is power for cretinization everybody i don't think anyone will argue about that could we look uh mr dally at your graphics now that are going to be on display uh she's really pleased because they are quite remarkable as you know if you've seen his work there can you see that one uh one rose that's the surrealistic flower girl and according to the stein gertrude rose is one of stopped earlier but yes then yeah and that's a surrealistic flower girl yeah it's dalini and flower because in paris some crazy people create one one dalvinian rose and it's this this one so the last creation in flowers in paris next there and that is the very good thing it's a realistic king in almost every oh go ahead no no no no no move because this is very important you know dali is tremendous monarchic catholic and very soon a spine becoming one kingdom after generalism of franco is already active the prince juan carlos becoming the king of spain and this is no message but this is the vision of spine in the moment of becoming one kittendom spain becoming one kingdom eye of surrealist time is the next title and uh i've noticed that there's a two out of five of your flat pictures in them and uh why what do butterflies of time because these appear one night at 11 o'clock look through the window and appear on tremendous gigantic a whistle uh hours you know three o'clock four o'clock and copy this yeah what was the name of the film in which a razor was drawn across an eye yes this probably is one personal uh question between time and early because in my uh between time and valley because in my fears the shenandoah movie yeah i started the movie cutting the a of one beautiful girl you remember caught twitch yes i don't know when you've seen that one forget it a razor blade is drawn across an eyeball and it's very uh uh is there anything people have failed to understand about the meaning of that uh probably is uh i am not like a blind people you know not like subconsciously exactly this is is very young dally loves becoming one girl and like it blossoms and not like it masculine sex and make one sex off girl for the same price no i don't understand that it was a self-portrait of you with with uh with female breasts watch enveloping they think come and bear cheese because valley like food come in there and like it for the same time foot watches what is the typical time what is a typical lunch for you uh the best in paris is uh start with orte laos you know be the little beers but you'll swallow everything and second flesh the waffle finish i start by clevis all animals with faces no like at the stack because there's no faces in one stick you won't eat a steak because it has no face like a food something with nose eggs and complete she knows your food and animals animals like little bees grow fish everything possessed mustaches days and complete completion quite so mr dolly has a cane here that belonged to sarah bernhardt and miss geshe was saying that of course you knew sarah bernhardt i mean i played with her as a child that's all man make the ornamentation of the opera in paris beautiful sorry to rush but we have only a couple of moments left and i've i do admire you in in your work and i would like to know if you would give me an autograph would you no no i had something larger in mind something like maybe this size and uh i've never asked a guest for an autograph on the air before but i thought it might be interesting to see if you do it in the ordinary way [Applause] you're sore but boujee budgie [Applause] [Music] you seem to be drawing a crown is that a crown and jesus drops drops of middle symbol a little drops of milk drops of milk on the crown do i suggest milk to you uh all the time because it's uh air editing and this is your have you ever heard anyone giving them an autograph oh or the date 1971 that says dolly and there's the crown and and in in more god in less squeaky less uh-huh hasn't lost his form would you pitch me an autograph mr page thank you very much for being here and you two we have a message we'll be right back after that we've got another one [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 11min 0sec (660 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 21 2020