Quotes About Memory

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.

God buries His workmen, but not His work.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

My work... is my legacy.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.

I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.

The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.

I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work.

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.

Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

Steve always said that he didn't care if anyone remembered him, as long as they remembered his message.

I fought some guy who looked like Steven Seagal, some aikido guy or something. The fight's not even on my record, I don't remember his name. My dad was there at the fight and he said he blinked and he missed the fight, so I think I finished him fast or something. I forgot all about that fight.