Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Keep a record of every picture you paint, have them photographed and write down where they went. Some day, when one reaches… — Keith Shackleton Copy Share Image
“But then over the years I spent time with her because of her, because in junior high school she drowned the dolls… — Amy Stolls Copy Share Image
One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him,… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative… — Gary Bettman Copy Share Image
“Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective… — Rex Reed Copy Share Image
I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank.… — John Waters Copy Share Image
When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what happens in between today and the night of my career retrospective. But on the bright side, I can… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
The left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very… — Deborah Kara Unger Copy Share Image
I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent Prouvé, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away.… — Patrick Seguin Copy Share Image
It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in… — Shelley E Taylor Copy Share Image
Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I am not really sure that Diana Vreeland did Yves Saint Laurent a favor, as opposed to the world, by putting that… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the… — Patrick Seguin Copy Share Image
People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot Copy Share Image
![“What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five years of your life, so when you come to their attention, they can know everything about you. I'm not down with that, but [Bill] Binney was trying to create something like…” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da9/edward-snowden-555_attention_what-the-nsa-really-wants-is-the-capabil_920203.jpg)
![“My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the point of collecting. It's certainly a [better] quality of life you have living with [these] works, but [I] also [value] the relationship we have with the artists.” quote by Patrick Seguin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92a/patrick-seguin-56024_art_my-business-is-retrospective-i-m-looking_247900.jpg)
![“When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.” quote by Nan Goldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/nan-goldin-6289_art_when-i-put-my-big-retrospective-together_3126864.png)
