Salvador Dali's Against and For List
| against | for |
| simplicity | complexity |
| egalitarianism | hierarchization |
| politics | metaphysics |
| nature | aesthetics |
| mechanism | dreams |
| youth | maturity |
| spinach | snails |
| Buddha | the Marquis de Sade |
| the sun | the moon |
| Rembrandt | Vermeer |
| savage objects | ultra-civilized 1900 objects |
| medicine | magic |
| philosophy | religion |
| mountains | coast line |
| phantoms | specters |
| women | Gala |
| men | myself |
| scepticism | faith |
From Descharnes, Robert, 1985. Dali.