Preservation of Memories Quotes

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they're preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything.

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

Louisiana is a special place in my family's history, and we are committed as a family to never forget the city and the people of Baton Rouge.

I paint flowers so they will not die.