The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Source: In Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, Preface, ed. Pierre Cabanne, 1968.
-- Salvador Dali, (May 11 1904-1989), Spanish painter, printmaker; He led the Surrealist Movement; noted for his explorations of subconscious imagery, e.g., Persistence of Memory, 1931.