Although I love nature, I find when I create art, I don’t make things that are “natural”. I remember once in high school we had to make a landscape, and it was just too plain for me, so I ended up making a surrealistic landscape - one where the scale/proportions and perspectives were mixed.

When I was growing up, Dali was probably my favorite artist. The reason is that I found Surrealism to be the most interesting style of art generally. “Natural” or “realistic” art was nice, but boring. Abstract art was inventive, but could of course also end up inane at times. Surrealism bridged the gap nicely.

Sleep, by Salvador Dali

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