Gave up Quote by David Hockney

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

— Robert Henri

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of…

— John Berger

People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a way of…

— David Salle

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

— Gregory Crewdson

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on…

— Siri Hustvedt

When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies.... Now…

— Catherine Opie

A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at it again…

— Steve McCurry

“The mental Images were liquifying So I could no longer separate what I was recalling from the past from what I'd seen in detailed…

— Kathy Reichs

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

— James Rosenquist

Memories are the most beautiful pictures our minds can paint, and nothing can ever erase them.

— Anonymous

Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments…

— Dianna Agron