I always wondered what the creepy flesh-thing was. If it was a self portrait, Dali must have had one heck of a migraine that day

In 8th grade I had an exceptional teacher, a nun. She hung a poster of this painting on the chalkboard and had us walk around viewing the painting for quite a while. Then we all sat down and jotted down our impressions. We then read them out loud to the class. That memory has persisted.

Salvador Dali and Vincent van Gogh both had older brothers that died and had the same name as themselves, disturbing.

"Dali lied the way other people clear their throats"...that tickled me. lol!

"The only difference between me and a mad man is that I'm not mad." Dalí

Nothing persists like the memory of something that shocked us in our childhood, such good title for a great painting.

I thought it was a dead goose.

Mona Lisa is the same way. I wasn't looking for it specifically when I was at the Louvre but I came across it from wandering aimlessly. I started going down a hallway and there was a massive group of people half way up the hallway. There were a few of those guided groups where the guide has the sign on a stick, maybe forty to fifty people crammed in and spilling out of a small room. As I walked past and behind the group I looked over past them and there it was, the Mona Lisa. The absolute first split second thought I had was "holy shit, it's tiny". I looked at it for a couple of seconds and moved on because I saw it and I wasn't about to wait for all the people to clear out to get a closer look so I went to the room next to the Mona Lisa room. This is my favorite memory of the Louvre. The room directly next to Mona Lisa is a large room and it had around ten paintings and not too many people in there so you could get up close to most of the paintings by yourself and really study the brush strokes and you weren't in the way of anyone else trying to look themselves. Every painting in that room next to the tiny Mona Lisa that had a swarm of tourists around it were Van Gogh paintings. My split second reaction to this room was "holy shit, these are all Van Gogh". It was awesome. I got to get my face within a couple of feet from a Van Gogh and really look at individual brush strokes while fifty people ten yards away from me were pushing to get closer to a tiny painting that was roped off so you couldn't get within ten feet of it even if the room was empty. Thank you Mona Lisa for letting me get up close to Vincent.

The memory of someone's face morphs as time passes.

What a sshiiityy thing to tell your child. "You are your dead brother come back to us"

Dalí trained himself to find one image inside another. Viewers returned the favor and found Einstein inside a piece of Camembert.

🤯 I can appreciate that painting more than ever now. Thank you.

I could never paint as famous painting as this one – there is never any leftover Camembert in the same room as me.

I never knew Dali went through that as a kid.No wonder he grew up tobe nuts.

I saw a melting clock as a child and have been fascinated ever since. The museum in Spain is absolutely worth a visit, his output was prolific.

I never noticed this detail before. The way the artist used light and composition here is incredible. Such a fascinating painting!

I wasn’t at all disappointed, I was astounded. I never heard anything about the Einstein thing, thank goodness. I’ve loved this painting since 1967..

I was first introduced to Dali by my boyfriend when I was 21 and found his art quite disturbing. But over the years as I saw more and more surrealist artists I grew to appreciate them until we had several prints of Dali's hanging in our home.  I love looking at them and seeing so much in them!  Truly creative!

The university loaned out art books and on weekends some of us would take acid and spend hours looking at his works, extra credit- acid didnt ruin his insight..

I always thought the face was him with the eyelashes were his mustache