Humans Quote by Gunter Grass

What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for…

— Don DeLillo

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I know all too well that people only see what they want to see and remember only what they want to remember.

— CL

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

— David Lynch

Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not…

— Nicole Krauss

Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?

— Tori Amos

What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“People have forgotten to use their memories. They look at life through the lens of a camera or the screen of a cell phone…

— Jamie McGuire

We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.

— Sophie Ristelhueber

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without…

— Werner Herzog

Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak…

— Alec Soth