Did salvador dali use hallucinatory drugs to help him paint surrealist paintings?
Dali said he didn’t use (or need) drugs; “I do not take drugs. I am drugs.” Towards the end of his life Gala (his wife) dosed him with non-prescribed medicines; “Dali suffered a devastating deterioration of the nervous system in 1980 as a result of Gala, 11 years his senior, regularly giving him a mixture of drugs that were not prescribed to him. After she died in 1982, Dali apparently lost his will to live and possibly attempted suicide a few times.” From Wiki; “In 1980, Dalí’s health took a catastrophic turn. His near-senile wife, Gala, allegedly had been dosing him with a dangerous cocktail of unprescribed medicine that damaged his nervous system, thus causing an untimely end to his artistic capacity. At 76 years old, Dalí was a wreck, and his right hand trembled terribly, with Parkinson-like symptoms.
