This year is the 100th anniversary of Salvador Dali's birth, and I went to see an exhibit of his graphical works--prints, lithographs, pen and ink sketches, stuff like that. Pretty amazing.

Yes, he became more about the Cult of Dali, especially after moving here (why am I not surprised?). Yes, he had a personal iconography that he used over and over in a deluge of minor works until he really became--at his worst--a hack. But at his best these melting clocks and stilt-legged mammals meant something to him, and through his work he was trying to communicate that to us.

He was an Artist, dammit, with a Vision.

Me, I just want to tell fun stories.