The archival document is a tear in the fabric of time, an…

“It’s a phrase, black swan,” she said. “Means a totally unexpected event with a big impact. But one that seems predictable afterwards, with the…

— Mick Herron

We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not…

— Primo Levi

“She is reminded that you never know when one unexpected event will transform you into “the person on the other side.”

— Amy Goldstein

Each project draws you in on its own merits as opposed to an intellectual choice of, "Well, I'm going to shift from vérité filmmaking…

— Liz Garbus

I love archival films very much. I spent thousands of hours watching archive footage. Every time I see it, I see something. Sometimes I…

— Rithy Panh

I always had the feeling, even when I started, that my photography was meant to be archival in nature. Sort of like wine, I…

— Gerard Malanga

Docs, in general, are made in the edit bay, archival docs even more so.

— Morgan Neville

Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available,…

— Fredrik Logevall

The physical world is not going away, just items take on different meaning. Paper takes on this archival, very important meaning now that it's…

— Alexa Hirschfeld

I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.

— Claude Lanzmann

It is great to know that the lives and careers of country music's artists are being documented through the Hall of Fame's expert archival…

— Marty Stuart

In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there…

— Frederick Buechner

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

— Simon Schama