Melting clocks are the most memorable item in this painting, and the artist was quoted as describing them as "...nothing more than the soft, extravagant, solitary, paranoiac-critical Camembert cheese of space and time... Hard or soft, what difference does it make! As long as they tell time accurately..." To reduce his clocks down to cheese melting in the sun has left many experts on the artist unsure as to whether this quote was meant genuinely.

The scenery found in this painting was directly inspired from Dali's time spent in the Catalonian landscape. This region offers an artist some inspirational colours, with vivid reds and oranges. Such warmth and brightness is well suited to modern art movements such as Surrealism. Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh famously found similar in France with their own styles. You will again find similar boldness of colour in the background scenes of Elephants and Rose Meditative. A rtist Dali would always use anything and everything that entered his mind during these periods of meditation, and would only analyse and select from them afterwards, once the initial canvases had been drafted.