How Well Do You Know Dalí?

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Dalí and Disney's film Destino was only released for the first time in 2003. It was first storyboarded in 1945 but World War 2 had taken its toll on Disney and production was halted until 1999. It was only then, when Walt Disney's nephew Roy E. Disney unearthed it, that production was resumed.

Dalí managed to cheat his way out of a few substantial restaurant bills, generally after hosting extravagant dinners for friends. Rather than paying the bill he would write out a cheque for a tiny amount then make a drawing on its back. Given his notoriety, few restaurants ever turned down his method of payment, and more often than not the establishments wouldn't cash the cheques.

It might have been disappointing for larger-than-life Dalí to have kept a dog or a budgie. He did have a cat, but it was no ordinary cat. Babou was an ocelot who accompanied Dalí to restaurants (perhaps another reason he got away with not paying his bills).

As an art student in Madrid in the 1920s, Dalí read Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. This book inspired his interest in ideas of self-interpretation as a creative tool to fuel his work. The two finally met in London just before the war after Freud had fled Nazi-occupied Vienna.

Fears of spiders, scorpions and other creepy crawlies are not uncommon but Dalí suffered from a phobia of grasshoppers. When they appear in his work they usually symbolize death, plague, or decay.