Quotes About Nostalgia

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot of them were reiterations of classic works.

By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.

At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl a foot taller than me.

So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not

I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

Cheryl Ladd Special - One-hour long, one thought show of jigglevision.

Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.

You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.

(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.

A photograph is the pause button on life.

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

She wore a dress the same color as her eyes her father brought her from San Francisco.

when I'm sad over what I lost, I often find that things look better in the rearview mirror than they really were