“In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.” HumansLooksPersonsStillsCharacterArtistOrderIndividualMemoriesSimpleBehindsEffectsPaintingDependsResponseWho We AreSimple Truths Book:Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting Source: Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting
“Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.” FeelingsPastBeliefBitsMemoriesSimpleInformationReplay Author:Daniel Schacter
“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.” WarRealitySeemsAgePoetryFoundLostSpeakMemoriesSimpleDaughterTestsAccountsIntuitionFantasticRevoltUnrealActualityArtifice Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)
“In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that changes everything else. But the memories are not erased of that safest time in the lives of men, when their prime concern was playing games with guys who just wanted to be their friendly competitors. Life never again gets so simple.” MenYearsPlayBodyWantedGuyGamesMemoriesSimpleBoysConcernFriendlyPrimeDozenCompetitorsPlaying GamesCenteringBody Change Author:Frank Pittman
“Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.” WorldLongBookRunningMemoriesSimpleChildhoodHeroBraveSimplicityComplicatedTelling The TruthLong RunsDefeatedContradictoryDisappointingSwordsman Author:Graham Greene
“For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories... And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.” GrowsMemoriesSimpleSawsHonestyIntegrityTownsRemainsRaisedPrivilegeSensesSmall TownPricelessNostalgic Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower