"The painting represented a landscape near Port 
Lligat, the rocks of which were illuminated by a 
transparent and meloncholy twilight. In the 
foreground were the olive trees with its branches 
cut 
and without leaves. I knew that the atmoshere I 
had 
succeeded in creating in that view served as the 
setting for an idea, a surprising image, but I 
did 
not yet know what it would be. I was about to 
turn 
off the light When I suddently "saw" the 
sollution. I 
saw two soft watches, one of which was hanging 
sadly 
from one of the olive tree branches." 
 
                             
                             Salvador Dali' 
                             1931