Change Quote by Alberto Giacometti

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion…

— Sloane Crosley

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new…

— Susan Sontag

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

— Charles Lamb

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

— Margaret Bourke-White

“Those who are ignorant of history and the evolution of taste are apt at every turn to make the present age their standard, and…

— Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury

An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.

— Porter Robinson

Not everybody has things that become classics.

— Gary Wright

There's so much nostalgia for music from the past.

— Jens Lekman

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Before the 80's everything seems ancient to me.

— Nikki Reed

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a…

— Robyn Hitchcock

I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way…

— Michael Bierut