''It is not the unconscious I seek in your pictures but the conscious. While in the pictures of the masters – Leonardo or Ingres – that which interests me, that which seems mysterious and troubling to me is precisely the search for unconcious ideas, of an enigmatic order, hidden in the picture. Your mystery is manifested outright.''
Sigmund Freud to Salvador Dalí
Sketch of Sigmund Freud by Salvador Dalí, 1938 © Freud Museum London