Imagery Quote by Anonymous

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

— Paul Scott

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.”

— Orhan Pamuk

I'm not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that…

— Eddie Martinez

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a…

— Marcel Proust

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

— Frederick Buechner

The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not…

— Gerald Jampolsky

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The more you see, especially being young, the more you see the past, the more you can draw upon that and the more you…

— Martin Scorsese

Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which…

— Nicholas of Cusa

The images are visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic. They aren't laid down on the same tracks as thought. And sometimes, when they return to you,…

— Martha Manning

Each image suggests an inner reality, a kind of scar of the past, a reflection of an act or an event once lived.

— Peter C Bunnell