20th century Quote by Frank Harris

“You forget," I said, "I'm a writer and the Muses are the daughters of Memory.”

— Aldous Huxley

Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly,…

— Marge Piercy

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

— Maurice Baring

The artist’s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-it’s your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and making something out of…

— Hilton Als

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of…

— Andre Maurois

“If the essence of creativity is linking disparate facts and ideas, then the more facility you have making associations, and the more facts and…

— Joshua Foer

“The reader's feedback is the muse for great written works of art.”

— Sarah Scott

“There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see…

— Siri Hustvedt

“The artist, in making victims of his muses, remasters himself as a hero, saving them from their otherwise inconsequential lives.”

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists

— Terrence Howard

“creativity is associative memory that works exceptionally well.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“But art should require no instrument but memory.”

— Paul Theroux