Playboy Interview: Salvador Dali

July, 1964

Playboy Interview: Salvador DaliTo art buff and art historian alike, Salvador Felipe y Jacinto Dali is one of the most compelling and paradoxical figures of our time. As the most famous living exponent of surrealism, he has been hailed by one critic as "chief cartographer of the mind's hidden country, and perhaps its chief custodian." His seemingly inexhaustible flood of nether-worldly images--drawn, he says, from dreams, nightmares and paranoiac visions--has left its mark, for good or...