Diary of a Genius - Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali imagined himself as the savior of modern art from laziness and chaos, justifying mercantile behavior as the only way to have enough resources to be completely free to create art as he felt. His unique autobiographical confession tears back the curtain on one of the most eccentric periods of the 20th century and leads the reader through the realms of brilliant mind and exploration of the metaphysical ambitions of painting to the true self of the artist, who, for the first time, openly talks about his own sources of inspiration, the creation of such masterpieces as The Persistence of Memory (1931), The Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937), and his work on Luis Buñuel's An Andalusian Dog (1928), an iconic surrealist film that became a subversive symbol of the 20th century.

"Diary of a Genius" is a mixture of tormented thoughts, obsessions, philosophical wit, and outpourings of love, revealing an extravagant and fiercely sincere artist for whom there is no doubt about his own genius.