“The decoration of the house is surprising, extraordinary. Perhaps the most exact adjective would be: never-before-seen. I do not believe that there is anything like it, in this country or in any other. The decoration of houses is always the same, according to the social condition of those who live in them: the bourgeoisie, the petite bourgeoisie, etc... It is the common, constant place. They don’t exactly rack their brains over it. Dalí’s house is completely unexpected. A precise, exact description should be made of it. It contains nothing more than memories, obsessions. The fixed ideas of its owners. There is nothing traditional, nor inherited, nor repeated, nor copied here. All is indecipherable personal mythology. There are many things whose meaning is only known to the owners. There are art works (by the painter), Russian things (of Mrs. Gala), stuffed animals, staircases of geological walls going up and down, books (strange for such people), the commonplace and the refined, etc.”

Josep Pla, Obres de Museu, 1981