The first idea that I am going to discuss in my argument to prove that this topic statement is true is to identify the probable location that Dali has used as a setting for the artworks The Great Masturbator, 1929 and Persistence of Memory, 1931 and explain what it would look like it was painted in a traditional landscape style. Both paintings can be identified from the location in Catalonia. Cap de Creus is a peninsula as well as the location Dali used to base his paintings, The Great Masturbator and Persistence of Memory. As Dali stated, “This land is my permanent inspiration. The only place in the world, too, where I feel loved. When I painted that rock that I entitled The Great Masturbator, I did nothing more than render homage to one of the promontories of my kingdom, and my painting was a hymn to one of the jewels of my crown.” Salvador Dali as a child grew up around this area, spending time in this environment led him to find creative inspirations from it. Upon seeing the particular rock which had an unique shape, Dali used this to reinvent and interpret it into his own. Hence his usage of the location, Cap de Creus in both paintings.