“The rape of self reflection is complete by introspection ravished and confounded through the rapt reveries of self propounded on the archaic mirror’s watersheet.”
–Salvador Dali, “The Metamorphosis of Narcissus” (a poem that accompanies the portrait of the same name, above)
“The finished Narcissus is even more important now… there are no pictures. There is only “one” which you continue your whole life on different canvases like frames on real film of the imagination.”
–Salvador Dali in a letter to James Edward, a British poet and his sponsor