“My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.” ArtFormGrowthMemoriesVisionPathShapesArt IsBreatheExplorationContractsRecollectionNew PathsNew VisionArmenia Author:Arshile Gorky
“Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.” KindArtPainMemoriesSeriousArt IsArtificial Book:The Black Prince Source: The Black Prince
“Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” WorldArtSoulFeelingsCultureMemoriesArt IsEverydayDustBuriedEveryday LifeIntroductionCultures Of The WorldTender Feelings Author:Pablo Picasso
“That's grossing money for other people that has a multiplying factor, but the government doesn't see that. It doesn't see that making a film or culture or art is part of our economy. But the main reason is this, it's part of our identity. I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual and he's stops being an individual.” PeopleThinkingArtCountryReasonGovernmentFilmCultureIndividualImaginationMemoriesEconomyIdentityArt IsFactorsCinemaMultiplying Author:Philippe Falardeau
“Even though I'm not actually performing in the works, I love the theatrical and have this fan relationship to showbiz. And one of the things that's a disappointment to me about art is that it's always a memory of something that happened. So I try to get as intimate or as real as possible.” TryingArtRealMemoriesHappenedFansArt IsDisappointmentPerformingIntimateTheatricalShowbiz Author:Jack Pierson
“As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked, these two statements defy the ease of logic, but offer some really important truths about narrative art, at the very least, and about memory. So I would say that all art is personal.” KnowsMayArtTwoImportantMemoriesFictionOffersArt IsLogicStatementsNarrativeEaseMottoMy MottoNarrative Art Author:Kwame Dawes
“Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.” ArtMemoriesEssentialsArt IsSeedsVaccinesSuitcasesBuoys Book:Beatrice and Virgil Source: Beatrice and Virgil
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.” IfsMenFeelsArtLastsMemoriesDutyHappeningsArt IsTasksUnhappySymbols Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.” ArtMomentsLeftMemoriesArt IsDancingDanceDancerBalletArt Dance Author:Martha Graham
“Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know the web, the net, The blind and crippled bird. For then, for One brief instant it was not blind, nor Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the Heart was free and moved itself. O love, I who am lost and damned with words, Whose words are a business and an art, I have no words. These words, this poem, this Is all confusion and ignorance. But I know that coached by your sweet heart, My heart beat one free beat and sent Through all my flesh the blood of truth.” KnowsLifeHeartArtStillsLostMemoriesForeverBloodIgnoranceSweetMy HeartBeatsBirdArt IsBlindMovedFleshConfusionInstantWakingTruth Of LifeTrappedCrippledHeart Beat Author:Kenneth Rexroth