Salvador Dali - paranoiac critical method

“I’m in a permanent state of intellectual erection.”
a soft self-portrait by Orson Welles
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BRYSON: Could you define the word 'paranoiac'? Could you define it in more detail?

DALI: The name is paranoiac critical method: one spontaneous method of knowledge based in the instantaneous association of delirious material: everything [that] appear[s] in my life, delirious, antagonistic, impossible [all] pushed together. My method instantaneously creates these miracles. Two completely different kinds of imagination. One is the romantic imagination where countries are represented by [the] Pre Raphaelites, Bouguereau, Rossetti, these people live in one dream but this dream is completely subjective, neurotic... this dream disappears, there is no possible proof this dream exists. ...my kind of imagination is the contrary of Pre Raphaelite is the same consistency [but] it is not romantic it is completely classic. The relationship between this classical Mediterranáen landscape is the same landscape of Greece [with the] fantastic mythology of the Greek antiquity and my monstruositites is the same kind of solid rock shape.

BRYSON: Yes, I understand that the geology, what you see here, confirms the images. The images are your private images in Dali's head but painted out they correspond to a reality.

DALI: Exactly because, my delirium is injected and sublimate in this rocks and in this geology. There's many kinds of imagination, [such as] the Romantic imagination, almost never exist in rock. It's only fog, music, evanescent visions of Nordic countries [where] everything is completly musical.

This also is very clear in my moustache because my moustache is the contrary of the moustache of Friedrich Nietzsche. Friedrich Nietzsche is the depressive moustache, plenty of music and fog and romanticism and the DalíÃ??Ã?­ moustache is exactly the same que two erected scissors completely metallic.