What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, . . . to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.
Source: The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, ch. 11, 1948.
-- Salvador Dali, (May 11 1904-1989), Spanish painter, printmaker; He led the Surrealist Movement; noted for his explorations of subconscious imagery, e.g., Persistence of Memory, 1931.