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"I am like Leonardo, I want to know everything. Creating relations between things is my constant preoccupation."
"I know that I know nothing. That's why I am less likely to be wrong than scientists."
After the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dalí attempted to find a correlation between the extremes of science and religious mysticism. Painting "melted clocks" as well as painting "a levitating Jesus over the sea", all played a part in reconciling the theories of Einstein to man's belief in the son of God.
"It is very important for an artist to have a developed sense of his place in the cosmos, I am more important as a cosmic genius than as a painter."
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l'Ascension du Christ, Pietà
Assumpta corpuscularia lapislazulina, 1952
Le Christ de Gala, 1978
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