Artist Quote by William Bernbach

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

— Rebecca Solnit

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

Forgetting is woman's first and greatest art.

— Richard Aldington

The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.

— Joseph Conrad

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Maurice Baring

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

— Honore de Balzac

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

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

— Arthur Miller

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

— John Dewey

I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson…

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

People sometimes forget, music is an art, and that I am an artist..

— Melchor Lim