He described his work as "hand painted dream photographs". His most famous work is The Persistence Of Memory. He was also a sculptor, writer and  movie maker ( he made the Surrealist film ‘Un Chien Andalou’ with Buсuel in 1929). His most famous paintings were The Persistence Of Memory, Crucifixion and the Last Supper.

"I'll be a genius... Perhaps I'll be despised and misunderstood, but I'll be a genius, a great genius."
Famous Quote by Salvador Dali

Concise Biography, History & Facts About Salvador Dali
Full Name - Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali
Nationality - Spanish
Birthplace - Figueras, Catalunya, Spain
Lifespan - 11 May 1904 - 23 Jan 1989
Family - His father was called Salvador Dali i Cusi. His wife was called Helena Deluvina Diakinoff
Educated - School of Fine Arts, Madrid

Increase your knowledge of Facts about the early famous works of Salvador Dali with the following list:

• 1925 - Figure at Window

• 1929 - Illumined Pleasures
• 1929 - Portrait of Paul Eluard
• 1931 - The Persistence of Memory
• 1932 - Meditation on the Harp
• 1934 - The Weaning of Furniture-Nutrition

• 1935 - Archeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus

Facts about Salvador Dali's list of later works

• 1936 - Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War

• 1936-37 - Cannibalism in Autumn
• 1936-37 - Lighted Giraffes
• 1937 - Metamorphosis of Narcissus
• 1940 - Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire
• 1949 - Leda atomica
• 1954 - Crucifixion ('Hypercubic Body')
• 1954 - Young Virgin Autosodomized by Her Own Chastity
• 1956 - Nature Morte Vivante (Still Life-Fast Moving)
• 1958 - Meditative Rose
• 1959 - Paysage aux Papillons
• 1959 - Apparition of the Visage of Aphrodite
• 1969-70 - The Hallucinogenic Toreador
• 1977 - Lincoln in Dalivision