“Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality; and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.” LoveDifferentSometimesRealityCausesSecretCasesDiscoveryAppearanceInventionShockMistressDisillusionment Author:Aldous Huxley
“Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.” MenWayShouldEndsNationsSecretMankindInventionEntiretyGunpowder Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.” MeanStillsFactsRealityProcessSecretMereInventionMediumsDataPoeticCaptureDelicateCatchingOsmosis Author:Salvador Dali