Art Quote by Henry de Vere Stacpoole

“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no mere photographs,…

— Henry de Vere Stacpoole

“But, memory paints impressionistic portraits of the past, enhancing some images and blurring others. To her,”

— Monique Martin

“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 picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image…

— D. H. Lawrence

“As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.”

— Sarah Cross

“…this is the problem with photographs. After a while, you can’t remember if you’re recalling the actual memory or the memory of the photograph.…

— Michael Zadoorian

“Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant. We photographers deal in things…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.”

— Italo Calvino

“Those who receive the most images into their memories have the most lively imaginations.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off the things that are really in there.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Pictures: When moments become memories”

— Kaustav Misra

“Without photographs, memories often fade.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman