One way that deception is necessary to knowing is in art. This is escpecially seen in Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory. Dali did not paint this painting from real life, but instead, he painted it from his mind. Dali painted something that was not real but from his memory probably because he felt that real-life could not express his feelings, but his imagination could. By painting something that looks as if it could be real, but having it not be real, Dali used deception, but his deception was used to convey knowledge. By painting clocks that are easily bent and molded, Dali seems to be trying to say that time can be easily bent. Dali seems to be saying that time can be deceiving. While deception is not always a good thing, Salvador Dali shows us that in art, deception can be used to increase knowledge.
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