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That's So New York - Again, today you may have guessed that I am feeling a little lazy (hence the short quote post) yet I have to say that I am beginning to admire these shots of inspiration in addition to the mile-high posts which I post ever so frequently. Today it seems that surrealist artist, Salavador Dali decided to grab my attention (most probably because I have just finished my last school exam and whilst I had some time to myself to ponder what the last five years of school have taught me and what the next two years of College could well bring, I did come across some of my research from my GCSE Art, Alice in Wonderland project where I did infact spend a good percentage of five months studying Dali alone.) Something which has always grabbed me is Salvador's sayings; not just because he is strange man who I admire (in the most normal way possible) or even because he has provided me with many floods of inspiration over the past two or three years throughout his work, yet also because what he is saying slightly makes sense, in a way that is both relevant to the fashion industry as well as pretty much any other industry you may persue a career in.

For those of you who do not know, Salvador Dali is a surrealist artist; for those of you who do not know what surrealism is, define: surrealism - "A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images." (or in slightly more understandable terms, you know them images which have been chopped and changed to show something which is out of the ordinary or borderline impossible? you know, them images where you have people flying in the sky and abnormally shaped faces carved into rocks, yet hang on a second- they can talk? well, that is surrealism.) 

Okay, so I'm going to share some of my interpretations on the quotations .. 1."give early in your youth" meaning that you should start young; "a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love" meaning that you should put your all into something that you love (it's pretty basic, yet with teenager after teenager wasting there time hanging around on the streets or .. (Continue Reading)