Salvador Dali is a Spanish painter.The more Dali showed himself in public, the more he concealed himself. His masks became ever larger and ever more magnificent: he referred to himself as "genius"and "god-like'. Whoever the person behind Dali really was, it remains a mystery.

 At the age of 37, Salvador Dali wrote his autobiography. Titled The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, the Spanish painter portrays his childhood, his student days in Madrid, and the early years of his fame in Paris up to his leaving to go to the USA in 1940. The exactness of his descriptions are doubtful in more than one place.Dates are very often incorrect, and many childhood experiences fit too perfectly into the story of his life. The picture that Dali drew of himself in 1942, and further developed in the years up to his death in 1989, shows an eccentric person, most at ease when placed in posed settings. Despite this tendency, Dalf often revealed intimate details of his life in front of the camera. This act of self-disclosure, as Dali explains in his autobiography, is a form of vivisection, a laying bare of the living body carried out in the name of pure narcissism. The more Dali showed himself in public, the more he concealed himself. His masks became ever larger and ever more magnificent: he referred to himself as "genius"and "god-like'. Whoever the person behind Dali really was, it remains a mystery.