The most surreal thing is the cigarette promo

Dali´s honesty is what made him appear so shocking in those days. I never realized that. Everything he says makes perfect sense and he's not holding back when he talks about his beliefs and perception of the world. People didn't get it, they thought his is some kind of Clown who mocks up strange things, when in fact he's just telling it like it is for him. Absolutely brilliant!

Dali once said, "I don't take drugs. I am drugs." This interview confirms that.

Dali is infinite. His physical body is gone, but his art has placed him into the pantheon of the immortals.

when you are 100 years ahead.....

This interview with Dali by Mike Wallace is probably the best one ever conducted. He succeeded is getting Dali to explain so much that subsequent interviews never achieved for example getting Dali to talk about how his art, his outrageousness, his "clowning" and his showmanship were all part of his efforts to express himself. Long after this interview he remained consistent to his thoughts about the meaning of chasity in logarithmic curve cauliflowers and rhinocerous horns, a phenomena in nature now more widely known as the "golden ratio" or fibonacci curve. Dali goes on to talk about the new discoveries in science with regard to chromosomes, physics, biology even anti-matter. Dali, in my opinion, was truly a genius in many ways.

I have been looking for this my whole adult life. Finally a recessed filter. And from a brand I trust!

Thank you Wallace. Obviously you were smart enough to interview a man whose imagination was too advance for his time. Unlike the Cavett interview you had patience with this quick thinker.

Dali once said "The only difference between me and a madman, is that I'm not mad".

Like all the greatest artists, Dali's greatest work wasn't his painting or writing or anything -- it was HIMSELF.

Dali has an immediate explanation for everything Wallace asks him.

For an alleged looney and eccentric, Dali answers Mike so calmly , lucidly , and with such a straight face, that I can’t tell if he seriously beleives everything he says , or is putting us on to some degree. Regardless, this is an incredibly fascinating and surprisingly thought-provoking discourse.

"force of spirit" everything this man says is an absolute gem

This man is extraordinary. I have watched several of his interviews; each time he walks circles around the interviewer.

Good interviewer, actually. He didnt sound neither pretentious or ignorant. He went straight to the point, respecting the interviewee, asking sensible questions. I bet Dalí liked him, because, despite his usually eccentrically metaphysical responses, he seems pretty relaxed and sympathetic in this interview.

One of the greatest minds as artist. A very informative documentary, thanks for sharing.

Definitely one of true art masters of the 20th century! Master of surrealism ... he was so ahead of his time....

What privilege to interview Dalí!!

The way he speaks and called himself "dali" fascinates me

I am lucky enough t have seen a few of his works at various museums and at various points in life, each time they stop me in my tracks. He was wise to consider him self a genius while he was alive. Perhaps that is part of how he got so far?

To see in person so many of his works at THE DALÍ MUSEUM in St. Petersburg, FL is a wonderment of a lifetime. To not visit THE DALÍ is to have missed one of the greatest things on Earth! The time and expense of a special trip to visit the museum is worth all efforts to do so at least once in your life- GO!!!!!!

Dali was speaking about the Fibonacci formula. He was such a genius

Remember that this was the worlds introduction to Dali. Mike Wallace was just another guy trying to make a paycheck. In those days the general public didn't know much about anything or anybody, everything was new as we were slowly introduced to the world via TV. Dali blew the worlds mind when this was aired and everyone blew him off as just a nut who drew really weird paintings. Within 10 years the world would never forget him.

This man is the DEFINITION of what a TRUE artist is. The very cornerstone of an artist, he has demonstrated it time after time after time. How i WISH I could have met him. 🖤🌷 P.s I’m cracking up by this interviewers frustration through his breath when he scoffs lmao... can’t really handle Dali’s analogies or expressions. Lol he ain’t the only one.

The man of 20th century in arts in my humble opinion! What a gift to have found this interview.

I can tell Salvador Dali was a genius. He's a Catalan but he could speak English with elaborated and sophisticated words which is difficult to do by average people.

Mike got confused when Dali explained the soft, flexible watches in "The Persistence of Memory". Dali was trying to say, in this interview anyway, that science has discovered that time is flexible and not persistent, not consistent throughout the universe. Einstein showed that time is relative to the observer, speeding up or slowing down depending on the relative motion of the two reference frames, and relative to the strength of gravity which itself is just the distortion of space-time. Rather brilliant for a non-scientist if you think about it.

This interview is nice, but in my opinion none in that time could have understood Dali enough to talk with him about his artworks... he was waaaaaaay beyond his time, a madman, but a loved one

This is gold.

I don't get why people have a hard time understanding dali. He makes perfect sense - especially the part about painting your own cosmogany. I didn't know there was a word for cosmogany, but I'm so glad there is, so the next time I'm taking about it, I can just use the word instead of describing the whole definition every time. Maybe I should read Freud.

I could listen to him all day, the dick cavett interview was a missed opportunity! He didn't know what to ask.

The one and only Salvador Dali, for ever.

Dali was an insane genius! A one of a kind and his wife knew how to promote his awesome paintings as well as his unique style!

Is this interview the most important, fantastic, genius, surprising interview on KZfaq?? Love you DALI ❤️

Wow, even with a thick Spaniard accent I could pretty much understand what Dali was trying to articulate in his symbolic approach to art and life

how unapologetic he was for such a conservative time is utterly fascinating

every dalí interview: “i’m sorry dalí i’ve lost you”

He is GREAT!! LOVE HIM

Mike Wallace has a hard time to understand the character of the person best describes how art blossoms. Dali was looking for reaction from everything he did. He was an actor as well as a visual painter.

Dali been very perceptive about the world of science and well aware of his time discoveries and used those information in his art. Pretty ingenious, one may say.

You need an educated interviewer to interview Dali

Spectacular Dalí! Thank you very much!

His English is way better than I thought.

He was certainly a genius relevant to the general populace of the time, at least. Great man.

I love you Dali. Thank you for paving the way. I feel so safe and validated because I myself connect through surrealism. He really saved me

Very interesting. I usually think it doesn't really matter too much what an artist says about their work, the art speaks for itself. But this was insightful.

I can say this is his best interview in english so far

Pure genius and madness...no better artist imho

Hvala za objavo, Ljubomire. Ovo je meni dragocijeno.

Thank you for sharing this!

lol 😉 I believe in the beginning what he's trying to say is "my personality, who I am, is more important than what I do" which I agree with But we have to remember, he was constantly on He was constantly trying to get a reaction His paintings weren't his art, HE was his art And yeah, if you want a real trip, try watching it with the subtitles 🤨

Dali talking about the beauty of death made me think of my father who died tragically when I was a teenager. Before he died I could have listed a million things wrong with him. After, it's like those things didn't matter as much and I just clung to the good memories. In life he was a flawed human like the rest of us. In death you become like an angel. And the deeds of your life become almost like myths.

Love this man.

To all lovers of art and specially of the amazing body of work in all fields that Dali left the world, I strongly suggest to visit the Dali Museum located in St. Petersburg, FL.

THANK YOU FOR THIS! I had just seen the larry king thing with eric andre when i thought that king doesnt understand him like wallace never really caught on to dali. what a legend.

Some people think, a painter can be famous only if he paints perfectly. In reality their personality and strong character made them famous. Nowadays many people try to get to the level of perfection with their paintings, but if you look at them or talk with them, they not jumping out from the crowd to you, because they forgot to create out something of themself, so much they focused on the canvas. So though they might paint better than others, nobody knows their name, noone wants to deal with them, because they do not have their unique personality, they are not brave enough to have their own opinion about things, wear their own style, their own color, have their own realm, their own wisdom. Well, painting good is not enough, because to enjoy a painting you have to enjoy the painter as well. They come hand in hand. If you develop your skills but you forget to develop yourself, you will not achieve anything, even if you paint until your death. When Dalì said, he enjoys every day to be more Dalì, that is what he ment. His persona was just as surrealistic as his paintings and the painting and the painter had a full harmonic relationship with each other. That is when it gets fascinating and gets your attention. If you can have such a unique mindset as he had, you can paint even stick figures, people will love it and your stickfigures can storm down any superrealistic painter around you. This thing I wrote specifically to those young and adult people, who are struggling in the field of creativity feeling they are not good enough. It has never been about beeing the most skilled artist, but rather being the most OF YOU, especially that part of you, what is differentiate you from every other people in the world. If you can find that part of you and you can express it, than you made your first step towards eternity, when your name will be written into encyclopedias and lexicons or maybe some other way will be preserved. In Ancient Egypt it was said "a person lives, until his/her name lives". So though you might die when you are 70-80, but if people remember your name centuries or millenias later, you still considered a living being, because you still have the direct effect on people's everyday life. They will borrow your thoughts, your sentences, your look, your style, your feelings, therefore you will live in those people further, you extend yourself towards the future and if you can imagine even towards the past. To be exceptional thinker in your time never a sweet smooth feeling, because you can expect, that people will ridicule you until your death. But what is coming after, that worth every risk. In the eye of the future even the craziest people can become something extremely beautiful. So if you see someone, who is painting way better than you, do not take off your brushes, do not give up, because there are many other ways to catch people's heart other than some really good brushstrokes. Not really the brushstroke what is matter, but rather your story to it.

"I'm Mike Wallace the cigarette's parlament "

Wallace: "As an adult you confessed that you once kicked a legless beggar along the street." Dalí: "Exactly." XD

The adoration of Weakness and Old Age Death is beautiful What a relief!

Smart, honesty, clear mind, perfectly makes sense. Okay, I can see ppl been rejected by percieved egoism, but if you listen more carefully, like here on topic of fear of death and his reasons for that, you can clearly see he almost defeated the ego in complete (altrough that is a struggle which never truly ends) Dali is certainly among my top 10 ppl Id mention who are the greatest ppl in history and had the deepest influence on myself. Rest in peace you crazy old fucker, you surely wasnt wrong when you pulled the Tesla (another from the bunch) theorem, about time working for you. I look up do all thjose ppl for different reasons, Dali is perhaps ONLY human I ever saw and heard who CONSTANTLY surprises me with his answers and views. And thats a feet SO UNIQUE it requires to be admired in itself. A fucking titan.

Dali is legend

What I learnt about being an artist: 1. Rhinoceros horn 2. Eccentric facial hair 3. Cauliflowers

In 1974, as an 18 year old, I was hanging out on a Greek Island with an American, very bohemian, very attractive girlfriend of Dali. All these years later, I wish I had spent more time asking her about Dali and less time working out how I could get her into the sack lol

This is the first time auto generated captions have helped me

The sudden cigarette promo at the beginning of the show, given by the shows host, beares striking resemblance to sponsored ads in KZfaq content today. It's like: that sort of intermittent advertising went out of style for _years_ on public television only to suddenly become relevant again in the modern day thanks to user-generated content on the internet.

Very entertaining, people in the late 50's probably didn't know how to handle this guy but think he is awesome, great painter.

im understanding Dalí´s mystique. Very spiritual, why he was a surrealist.

i'm mike smokin wallace and this is my cigarette show called smokin cigs with the big wigs and the cigarettes parliament.

He was indeed a genius ❤

Mike Wallace is probably the most respectful american interviewer Dali encountered.

Aaa. Incredibil. Finally a piece of history love it. Tigarete comerccial

Dali is superiorly superb! He’s an artist What does condescending Wallace not understand It’s Salvador Dali Thanks !!!

My name is Mike Wallace, the cigarette is Parliament... ("I'll be interviewing Mr. Parliament a bit later, but now...") Lol! Best ad segue ever!! I'm more interested in his upcoming interview with Rheinhold Niebuhr, but I have to wait a whole week??

Really good interview and the interviewer. I saw an interview with Dali previously on Dick Cavett show and it was more superficial and entertainment driven.

I love you Dali

Holy Crap! I've always hated cigarettes but after watching this I have an odd craving for a cigarette, but not just any cigarette, I want a Parliament with a recess filter!

Damn he was saying that scientists and physicist looked at his paintings and saw what we now call a hollowgram😨😱 Crazy how the eye can uncover many creations!

Now I wanna smoke a Parliament so bad!!

Mike Wallace ain’t hit that cigarette one time 😂😂

Great answers ,he really took time to explain to Mike Wallice .You got to know lot about nuclear physics ,mysticism Jungian analytical psychology to understand Dali

What we do in life echoes in eternity - Maximus, Gladiator.

Poets write things that are not meant to be understood by anyone...perhaps not even by the poet. This, I believe, is how Dali's mind continually worked, when concious.

he's a social media influencer well before his time

Cosmogony: the branch of science that deals with the origin of the universe, especially the solar system.

Mike wallace is perhaps the greatest interviewer ever. Those who think he did a bad job here don't know how an interview works.

Good interview.

really cool commercial!!!!!love it catalyst /in brain/everywhere!love art/artistes.waaaaaaaaay ahead of his time!!!!

his accent is the bomb

Thanks so much for this, like really, really appreciate it!! He was/is amazing....truly inspirational 💭🌟🌌 3:27 lol 5:57 7:09 7:58 9:14 12:36 14:12 15:03 21:55

I can’t believe the reporter was also promoting the tobacco product advertised at the beginning “ high five parliament now at popular price”!

Amazing!

-Who sees the world through surrealist eyes *opens eyes more*

Mike Wallace should have done his research first. He would have realized he was ill suited to interview Mr Dali

Great interview 😮. The cigarettes ad is looking tasty. I dont smoke.😂

Calls Dali "mild man" Proceeds to call him out as Masochist/Sadist

GOD made some unique people... I LOVE DALI, his so funny and interesting, very talented.

Waiter, where is my cooked telephone?!

Now I wanna see Chris Wallace talk about parliament cigarettes.

I like when geniuses declare it, cut through all the fake humbleness

Salvador talking! ❤😃💄