Art Quote by Hilton Als

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

— Maurice Baring

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

— Arthur Miller

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

“Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental or trivial.…

— Frank Harris

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

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

— Terrence Howard

As an artist, you always want to never forget where you come from.

— Playboi Carti

As an artist you have to keep reinventing yourself.

— David Hammons

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

— Rebecca Solnit

A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally…

— Paul McCartney

“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 only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

— James Lee Burke