Quotes About Memory

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus.

One's memories aren't what actually happened - they're very subjective. You can always make it much better, right?

The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?

I think Heaven and afterlife is for the living; it's for the people that continue on and remember that person, and if you've done something that is substantial in your life then you can leave a legacy and do something positive.

All of Wes Anderson's films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the subtext that memory is the most extraordinary confection of all.

My father is with me every day. Although he passed away in 2003, he continues to live on inside me and through me - at home and work, on crowded subway cars and busy sidewalks.

I was born Ezeogo Igariwey to live my life a legacy for the world,like a wound that healed with a scar that remains."My legacy will leave a mark on the world and I shall never be forgetten for my good,bad,and ugly deeds.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.

When Homer composed the Iliad and Odyssey, he was drawing on centuries of history and folklore handed down by oral tradition. When Nicolas Poussin painted The Rape of the Sabine Women, he was re-creating Roman history. When Marcel Proust dipped his petites madeleines into his tea, the taste and aroma set off a flood of memories and emotions from which modern literature has still not recovered.

The real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

Sjecanje na nase tuge sprecava nas da vidimo patnju drugih. Koji evropski ili azijski narod na kraju I &II Sv Rata nije bio preokupiran previjanjem bezbrojnih rana.

L'Histoire l'emporte sur la mémoire, or l'Histoire a besoin de héros.

Life cannot withstand death, but memory is gaining in its struggle against nothingness.

To see something for the last time can be as intense as seeing it for the first time

I painted the lines and colours that affected my inner eye. I painted from memory without adding anything, without the details that I no longer saw in front of me. This is the reason for the simplicity of the painting, their obvious emptiness. I painted the impressions of my childhood, the dull colours of a forgotten day.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

Sadness is always the legacy of the past; regrets are pains of the memory

You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.

What were you worried about this time last year? Can't remember

The remembrance of a beloved mother becomes a shadow to all our actions; it precedes or follows them.

A good memory is one that can remember the day's blessings and forget the day's troubles