Quotes About Memory

The English and the French have not a single memory in common. Everything that London suffered with pride, Paris suffered in shame and despair. It is important for us to learn to speak of ourselves without emotion

Hayat?m?n anlar?n?n, hat?rlanan bir hayat?n anlar? gibi birbirini izlemesini istemiÅŸtim. Zaman? kuyruÄŸundan yakalamaya kalk??man?n böyle bir önemi olabilirdi.

The letters I had inscribed on it were not even dry yet and already they belonged to the past.

Non ci si può mettere il passato in tasca; bisogna avere una casa per sistemarvelo. Io non possiedo che il mio corpo; un uomo completamente solo, col suo corpo soltanto, non può fermare i ricordi, gli passano attraverso. Non dovrei lagnarmi: il mio solo desiderio è stato d'esser libero.

Cómo yo, que no he tenido fuerzas para retener mi propio pasado puedo esperar que salvaré el de otro?

Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.

My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting # intuition guide my way.

I think a lot of the work I've done and a lot of the work I'm going to do in the future still ties to 9/11 and the fallout from it.

Internet's been down most of the day [at work]. Doing research by just asking everyone what we remember to be true. What could possibly go wrong?

The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.

Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.

From its first startling image, Orhans Inheritance will seep under your skin and leave an indelible mark upon your heart. What lucky readers we are to inherit Aline Ohanesians gorgeous work.

I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.