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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

“I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for the best. Over seven years, I was rejected seven times on three different books. The fourth attempt was picked up by a small publisher, and I still have great memories of staying up all night, talking to my brother and sisters (my dad called me at 2:30 in the morning because I was overseas).”

“To see something marvelous with your own eyes-that's wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you'll both have that memory for the rest of your lives, but that each of you will only ever hold only have an incomplete half of it, and that it won't ever really exist as a whole until you're together, talking or thinking about that moment ...that's worth more than one plus one. It's worth four, or eight, or some number so large we can't even imagine it.”

“Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.”

Thinking Language Memories Animal Talking Behavior Smell Categories Autism Sensory Animal Behavior

Author:Temple Grandin

“I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out loud, so that I can hear the poem's rhythm.”

Writing I Can Memories Talking Walking Computer Rhythm Loud

Author:James Arthur

“Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.”

Men Order Memories Talking Shapes Quitting Distress Examination Psychoanalysis

Book:James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories”

Looks Book Past Wish Memories Talking Keys Past And Present

Author:Lou Reed

“People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.”

People Firsts Young Memories Talking Heard First Time Heavy Shoulders Load Good Memories Heavy Loads Tonks

Author:Mick Jagger

“Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.”

Stills Remember Life Is Sound Memories Talking Sadness Goes On Laughter Empty Good Things Silent Edges Time Goes On Jagged Edge

Book:Looking Back: A Book of Memories

Source: Looking Back: A Book of Memories