African american Quote by Romare Bearden

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

— John Dewey

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

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

— Paula Fox

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a…

— Susan Sontag

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

— Paul Klee

Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the…

— Nick Bantock

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

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

— Arthur Miller

everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

— Muriel Spark

Memories are photographs taken by the heart...

— Missluckysunshine

“I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory…

— Lydia Millet

Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as…

— Jodi Picoult