"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."
Salvador Dali was a Spanish surrealist artist known for technically precise and dreamlike imagery, including The Persistence of Memory. He also worked in film, design, and sculpture. His work made him one of the most recognizable figures of Surrealism.