Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache—it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: 'Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?' Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
— Salvador Dali Modern

Surrealist painter

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From his book 'Dalí's Mustache'

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1954

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