“For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed.” ThinkingWorldYearsFirstsMemoriesDesignPaintingNeededSkillsConceptsPaintDetailsDrivenAround The WorldRelyTechnical Skills Author:Milford Zornes
“Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future just an image or thought. All our stories about past and future are only ideas, arising in the moment. Our modern culture is so tyrannized by goals, plans, and improvement schemes that we constantly live for the future. But as Aldous Huxley reminded us in his writings, "An idolatrous religion is one in which time is substituted for eternity...the idea of endless progress is the devil's work, even today demanding human sacrifice on an enormous scale.” WritingHumansIdeasMomentsStoriesRealityTodayPastCultureGoalMemoriesProgressPlansSacrificeModernEternalDevilConceptsEternityImprovementScalesEndlessEnormousSchemesHuxleyModern CultureLive Futures Author:Jack Kornfield
“It's a fusion of almost everything, in the way that I think society today tends to take cultural memory. Because there's an internet, it's on there forever. I think that's the way kids see the world today. They actually speak to each other using retro concepts now because the internet culture has kept that memory alive, constantly.” ThinkingWorldWayKidsTodayCultureSpeakMemoriesForeverAliveInternetConceptsWorld TodayFusionRetroSociety TodayInternet Culture Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.” IfsMayRememberLawUsedMemoriesConceptsCourtInnocentUsed To BeGuiltyInnocenceProvenNo PointPresumptionGood MemoriesAmerican LawPresumption Of Innocence Author:Noam Chomsky
“Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become immortal in the memory of others.” GivingMemoriesInformationProduceModelsConceptsPhotographerImmortal Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography
“Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory.” NeedsLongMemoriesTechnologyCenturyPhotographyConceptsInstitutionsDistanceDetailsDescriptionMuseumsDefiningCredibilityObjectivityNineteenth CenturyLong DistanceArchivesRigorConsolidationOptics Author:Joan Fontcuberta
“The quantum hologram is a mechanism to explain this concept of the ancients of the Akashic Records. It also explains Rupert Sheldrake's work among animals [his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, leading to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory].” UniverseMemoriesAnimalVisionRecordsFieldsTheoryConceptsDevelopingMechanismQuantumInherentResonanceHolograms Author:Edgar Mitchell
“One of the main jobs of conciousness is to keep our life tied together into a coherent story, a self-concept. It does this by generating explanations of behaviors on the basis of our self image, images, memories of the past, expectations of the future, the present social situation, and the physical environment in which behavior is produced.” DoeSelfStoriesTogetherJobsPastSocialMemoriesSituationEnvironmentOur LivesBehaviorExpectationsConceptsBasesExplanationTiedSelf ConceptPast Memories Author:Joseph E. LeDoux