Andy Warhol Quotes

I keep a diary when I have time to. I always know that I'm either having a great time or I'm very busy when there are three weeks of nothing in my diary. But I like to look back because in ten years to the day I can know where I was and what I was doing, and that's a nice feeling.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.

I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.

To me, pictures are about memory.

I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.

Acting brings up a lot of the past. I use my memories, whether they're good or bad.

I pop in highlight films from high school once in a while because those days were special.

Photography was a way for me to freeze time and to capture the moments that were happy and healthy. I saw a photo as a way to go back to a memory if I ever needed to.

Memories. That's the thing about photography. I look at the contact sheet, and it brings back everything: whether I was tired, whether I was full of beans.

I don’t want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick – even the bad ones – so I repeat them often.

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.

I've subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker.

All those years and their moments— Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One more shaky text.

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place... [Photography] offered a way to contain memories, to overcome loss, to keep history.

I came in 11 years ago. I remember it like it was tomorrow

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.