Editing Salvador Dalí (section)

===Personality===
[[File:Salvador Dali NYWTS.jpg|thumb|upright|Dalí in the 1960s, sporting his characteristic flamboyant moustache, holding his pet ocelot, Babou]]
Dalí was renowned for his eccentric and ostentatious behavior throughout his career. In 1941, the Director of Exhibitions and Publications at MoMA wrote: "The fame of Salvador Dalí has been an issue of particular controversy for more than a decade. ... Dalí's conduct may have been undignified, but the greater part of his art is a matter of dead earnest."<ref>Gibson, Ian (1997) pp. 413–14</ref> When Dalí was elected to the [[Académie des Beaux-Arts|French Academy of Fine Arts]] in 1979, one of his fellow academicians stated that he hoped Dalí would now abandon his "clowneries".<ref>Gibson, Ian (1997) p. 569</ref>

In 1936, at the premiere screening of [[Joseph Cornell]]'s film ''[[Rose Hobart (film)|Rose Hobart]]'' at Julien Levy's gallery in New York City, Dalí knocked over the projector in a rage. "My idea for a film is exactly that," he said shortly afterward, "I never wrote it down or told anyone, but it is as if he had stolen it!"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://andel.home.mindspring.com/cornell_notes.htm|title=Program Notes by Andy Ditzler (2005) and Deborah Solomon, ''Utopia Parkway: The Life of Joseph Cornell'' (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003)|publisher=Andel.home.mindspring.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050408200021/http://andel.home.mindspring.com/cornell_notes.htm|archive-date=8 April 2005|access-date=22 August 2010}}</ref> In 1939, after creating a window display for Bonwit Teller, he became so enraged by unauthorized changes to his work that he pushed a display bathtub through a plate glass window.<ref name="Meisler" /> In 1955, he delivered a lecture at the Sorbonne, arriving in a Rolls-Royce full of cauliflowers.<ref>Gibson, Ian (1997), p. 479</ref> To promote Robert Descharnes' 1962 book ''The World of Salvador Dalí'', he appeared in a Manhattan bookstore on a bed, wired up to a machine that traced his brain waves and blood pressure. He would autograph books while thus monitored, and the book buyer would also be given the paper chart recording.<ref name="Meisler" />

After World War II, Dalí became one of the most recognized artists in the world, and his long cape, walking stick, haughty expression, and upturned waxed mustache became icons of his brand. His boastfulness and public declarations of his genius became essential elements of the public Dalí persona: "every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí".<ref name="Smithsonian">[http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2005/april/dali.php?page=3 The Surreal World of Salvador Dalí] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070303165950/http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2005/april/dali.php?page=3 |date=3 March 2007 }}. ''Smithsonian Magazine.'' 2005. Retrieved 31 August 2006.</ref>

Dalí frequently traveled with his pet [[ocelot]] [[Babou (ocelot)|Babou]], even bringing it aboard the luxury ocean liner SS ''France''.<ref name="NBCSSFrance">{{cite news |title=Retired cruise ship now asbestos battleground |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna12702721 |access-date=7 May 2022 |work=NBC News |language=en}}</ref>

Dalí's fame meant he was a frequent guest on television in Spain, France and the United States, including appearances on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'' on 7 January 1963,<ref>[Cite https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1529195/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231194056/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1529195/ |date=31 December 2021 }}] on which he created a work of art out of his own name,</ref> ''[[The Mike Wallace Interview]]''<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/dali_salvador.html|title=Mike Wallace Interviews Salvador Dalí|work=The Mike Wallace Interview|access-date=5 April 2020|archive-date=3 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203083758/http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/dali_salvador.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the panel show ''[[What's My Line?]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.retronaut.co/2011/07/whats-my-line-featuring-salvador-dali/ |title=Dalí on Whats my Line |work=retronaut.co |access-date=14 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602185039/http://www.retronaut.co/2011/07/whats-my-line-featuring-salvador-dali/ |archive-date=2 June 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/29/art-television_n_7156450.html|title=The Early Days Of Television Were Way More Avant-Garde Than You Give Them Credit For|first=Priscilla|last=Frank|date=29 April 2015|access-date=26 June 2017|newspaper=Huffington Post|archive-date=4 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160904132937/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/29/art-television_n_7156450.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Dalí appeared on ''The Dick Cavett Show'' on 6 March 1970 carrying an anteater.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CmM19jBdrI| title = Salvador Dalí on the Dick Cavett Show, Youtube| website = YouTube| date = 10 May 2016| access-date = 20 November 2017| archive-date = 28 January 2017| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170128132312/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CmM19jBdrI&app=desktop| url-status = live}}</ref> He also appeared in numerous advertising campaigns such as {{illm|Lanvin (chocolate)|lt=Lanvin|fr|Lanvin (chocolat)}} chocolates<ref name="Augustin">[http://ehotelier.com/browse/news_item.php?id=P12135 Salvador Dalí at Le Meurice Paris and St Regis in New York] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011211226/http://ehotelier.com/browse/news_item.php?id=P12135 |date=11 October 2007 }} Andreas Augustin, ehotelier.com, 2007</ref><ref>{{youTube|O0Zc1heZlwc|Salvador Dali – Chocolat Lanvin $}}</ref> and Braniff International Airlines in 1968.<ref name="Namath">''Namath: A Biography'', [[Mark Kriegel]] [[iarchive:namath00mark/page/290|p. 290]]</ref>