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“I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.”

Trying Kind Dream Moving Memories Forget Secret Talking Essentials Models Remains Intimate Confession

Author:Oskar Kokoschka

“In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today - well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?”

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Author:Edmund White

“Every vivid memory holds some essential truth about your vision of the world”

World Memories Vision Essentials Vivid Vivid Memories

Book:The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft

Source: The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft

“It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.”

“Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.”

Ifs Memories Teach Creativity Essentials Waste Wasting Time

Author:Tony Buzan

“But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.”

Dream Reality Memories Opinion Future Essentials Judgment Percent Ninety Spinning Spinning Around

Author:Joko Beck

“People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions. Others who are better at internalized learning use the thoughts that flow from their subconscious. The experienced skier doesn't recite instructions on how to ski and then execute them; rather, he does it well "without thinking," in the same way he breathes without thinking. Understanding these differences is essential.”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts.”

Memories Brain Essentials Survival Buried Nuts Exquisite Good Memories Squirrels

Author:Daniel Levitin

“That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so no one’s death meant an immediate vanishment from the world; in some sense the deceased would live on after their passing, at least as long as those who loved them lived. Such memories were an essential weapon against the chaos of life and death, a way to ensure some continuity from generation to generation, an order of endorsement and meaning.”

Source: The Bad Place

“Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.”

Memories Consciousness Essentials Conscious Who We Are Unconscious Explicit Implicit

Book:The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

“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.”

Art Memories Essentials Art Is Seeds Vaccines Suitcases Buoys

Book:Beatrice and Virgil

Source: Beatrice and Virgil

“A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are fashioned by those who encounter them after they are built. The essential feature of a landmark is not its design, but the place it holds in a city's memory. Compared to the place it occupies in social history, a landmark's artistic qualities are incidental.”