Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Persistence of Memory" in English language version.
Surprisingly, Dalí said that his soft watches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert cheese melting in the sun. The painter insisted on this explanation in his reply letter to Prigogine, who took it as Dalí's reaction to Einstein's coldly mathematical theory.
The death of Salvador Dali evokes the image of his most famous painting, Persistence of Memory.
Frequently referenced in popular culture, the small canvas (24x33 cm) is sometimes known as "Melting Clocks", "The Soft Watches" and "The Melting Watches".