Brassaï Quotes

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

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• My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Look
  • Images
  • Material

• Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • September
  • Images
  • Wave

• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Party
  • Justice

• You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Done

• Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

  

  Lactantius
  • Age
  • Memory
  • Adversity

• My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Weird

• How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Memory

• I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Work
  • Think
  • Memory

• It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

  

  P. D. James
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Perfect

• For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Me
  • Story
  • Memory

• If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Memory
  • Possible
  • Racial

• To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Great
  • Memory
  • Liar

• I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Memory

• I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Forget
  • Memory
  • Never Forget

• People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Mind
  • Future

• My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.

  

  Candace Camp
  • People
  • She
  • Kids

• Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Learning
  • Depression
  • Memory

• A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • People
  • Good
  • Memory

• There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Images

• As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

  

  Raymond Floyd
  • Around
  • Course
  • Hitting

• Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Cool
  • Doing
  • Self

• I'm living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.

  

  Keith Sweat

• I want to see young people who as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as their young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them as radically laying down their lives for the Gospel as they are over in Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places, you know, because we have... excuse me, but we have the truth!

  

  Becky Fischer
  • Truth
  • Islam
  • Gospel

• Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

  

  Brassaï
  • Memory
  • Images
  • Conceived