Memory Quotes

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Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise. — Gladys Taber
Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to… — Chogyam Trungpa
I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works deserving this character… — Joshua Reynolds
In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the… — Anthony Burgess
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For… — John Clare
Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well. — Robert Henri
If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling. — Robert Henri
The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten. — Robert Henri
Let me recommend to you not to have too great dependence on your practice or memory, however strong those impressions may have been which are… — Joshua Reynolds
I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in… — Eugene Delacroix
The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for… — Eugene Delacroix
Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection. — Alain de Botton
The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain. — Emily Carr
The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory… — Edith Schaeffer
Memory and intention and intuition are fused. The iron is always hot. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light… — Madison Cawein
Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten… — Marion Milner
Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know it's happening until one day you feel you've… — Robert R. McCammon
I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canvas... Within me sounded the… — Wassily Kandinsky
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many factors... This is… — Erwin Schrodinger

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