Dali Quote by Salvador Dali

“Indeed psychoanalysis makes sense only as part of the larger cultural conversation in the arts that became known as modernism. Vienna, where Freud lived…

— Adam Phillips

All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may…

— Wendy Beckett

“psychoanalysis is more than a technique; it is an art, and highly specialized training in craftsmanship will”

— Otto F. Kernberg

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

— Eric Kandel

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

— Vincente Minnelli

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

— Karl Kraus

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

— Erich Fromm

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

— Andre Breton

“Salvador Dalí’s aberrations are partly explicable. Perhaps they are a way of assuring himself that he is not commonplace. The two qualities that Dali…

— George Orwell

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

— Karl Kraus

“Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the…

— Howard Kerr

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

— Karl Kraus