Memory Quote by Francis Bacon

I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is…

— Carl De Keyzer

To me, pictures are about memory.

— Joe McNally

Pictures often sit inside of pictures, but the edges of pictures and objects are rarely subjected to serious challenge; we are presented with distinct,…

— Jessica Stockholder

Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

— Jesse Jackson

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a…

— Clement Greenberg

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.

— Emmet Gowin

There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a…

— Lawrence Weiner

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

— Willem de Kooning

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which…

— Andre Bazin

I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really abstract shapes.…

— John Newman

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

— Gerhard Richter

Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that…

— Gerhard Richter