I am writing this in a coffee shop, because the shop is the only place that has free wi-fi to use my laptop, and I’m not paid enough to buy a computer. Its a nice coffee shop. The barista looks like a dali painting. I’ve always wanted to write something like that. But then I look at my friend and he reminds me that the art of making coffee is so much more than just telling you it looks like a dali painting or a famous artist of the past would react.

Telling you what Salvador Dali would say about something is very different than actually taking into account what he thought about it. Dali was a huge fan of surrealism, but his opinion of surrealism is not important for this article. He was also politically active, but I don’t really care about his political views here because there are plenty of other people who do care about that kind of thing and can write better articles about it than I can.

Salvador Dali was definitely interesting and wrote some very weird things on occasion, but even if you have no interest in surrealism at all, you should still appreciate coffee as an artform, especially if you have never tried any other kind of coffee before. What Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali is a world famous artist and this is an article about making coffee.

How does Dali feel about this? He thinks it’s nuts. He doesn’t think it’s nuts because he thinks art is more important than coffee. He thinks it’s nuts because he thinks anything that isn’t art isn’t worth thinking about. When he looks at the article, his mind goes blank. It’s just not worth thinking about. It’s so obviously not art that it never even occurs to him to think whether it might be worth thinking about in some non-art way, or to wonder how an intelligent person could possibly take this thing seriously.

Dali sees the article and doesn’t even notice the words on the screen; he just sees a blotchy image in three colors, all of them ugly, some of them unpleasant. He doesn’t imagine himself in a cafe or smell the coffee or hear the clinking of cups; he sees something like what you see in a Rorschach test, except less interesting — maybe just brown and white splotches on top of something that might be blue.

He didn’t get angry at this blog post, but if something like it had shown up on his computer screen in his own time he would

This is the first in a series of posts about Salvador Dali and coffee.

Often people say “I love Salvador Dali, he’s one of my favorite artists.” I want to correct that impression. I’m not saying you shouldn’t like Salvador Dali, but I think you need to look at his work a little more closely than most people do.

I don’t mean this as criticism. Some things are better appreciated with time, and artists often make their most lasting contributions after their deaths. But there is something special about Salvador Dali that makes it hard for us to see his art clearly now. It might be a good idea for us to put on some goggles before we look at his pictures– just as we do when we look at the sun– and try to see them as he would have seen them himself.

What would that be like? As he grew up, Salvador Dali lived through some of the biggest changes in history: from horse-drawn carriages to cars and airplanes; from candle lamps to electric lights; from silent films to the radio and then television. His world changed so much in those years that it’s hard even for us to imagine what it was like for him. What could he have thought about in those years? How

Coffee innovation is a work in progress. While some of us have enjoyed the rich flavors brewed from the beans of Africa, Latin America, and Asia for centuries, the rest of us have been catching up.

Dali was born in 1904 and died in 1989. He lived through Art Deco and Pop Art movements, but he never held himself back from incorporating new ideas into his own artistic perspective.

As today’s artists and thinkers continue to innovate, Dali would likely remain open to their work. His surrealist art was anything but traditional — it was an imaginative exploration of subjects that were deemed taboo at the time.

His artwork is now owned by millions of people around the world who can appreciate its beauty; surely his thoughts on innovation would be equally appreciated.

The question of how a master artist would react to my articles is a tough one to answer. I doubt if Dali would find much in common with me. He was busy creating art pieces that I believe were ahead of their time. I am trying to do something that is a little different, something that can be looked at from different perspectives. I don’t think he would understand or appreciate my use of humor in the way that perhaps others might.

*I guess it’s just a matter of opinion who’s art is better, but I personally like mine better.*

Salvador Dali once said, “There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.” This may seem like a statement of the obvious, but it’s actually a subtle and complicated idea that has been explored in depth by some of the greatest thinkers in art history. Salvador Dali is often considered the ultimate surrealist artist, and this quote is simply a way of saying that he believed in his own artistic project.

Salvador Dali understood that to be an artist requires more than talent—it requires madness. It requires having your sense of reality challenged; it requires you to believe in something no one else believes in. The most important thing for any artist is to have their own vision, even if that vision seems utterly implausible to everyone else. In fact, Salvador Dali believed that this implausibility was what made art possible. After all, if you have the same vision everyone else does, then why bother making paintings? You can just paint what you see in front of you.*