Approach Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

— Italo Calvino

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

— Italo Calvino

Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a…

— Siri Hustvedt

When all is lost, there is still a memory.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image.

— Frederick Sommer

Memory demands an image.

— Bertrand Russell

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

— Brassai

Words that do not create images should be discarded.

— Gerry Spence

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the…

— William S. Burroughs

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Perhaps the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will disappear and…

— Nancy Newhall