" The Persistence of Memory " (Spanish: La persistencia de la memoria, 1931) - one of the most famous paintings of the artist Salvador Dali. Located in the Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1934.Also known as " soft watches ", " Hardness of memory " or " Persistence of Memory" . Some believe that the painting is called " Despair ", but it is not.This small painting (24 × 33 cm) - probably the most famous work of Dali. Softness hanging and flowing hours - an image that could be described as follows: " it is distributed into the unconscious , enlivening the universal human experience of time and memory ." Here there is also Dali himself as sleeping head , have already appeared in "Funeral Game " and other paintings . According to his method, the artist explained the origin of the plot thinking about the nature of Camembert ; landscape with Port Ligat was ready , so that a painting was a matter of two hours. Returning from a movie where she went to the evening gala rightly predicted that no one, once you saw " The Persistence of Memory ," has it never forget. The painting was painted as a result of associations arising from Dali at the sight of melted cheese , as evidenced by his quote.