Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Source: The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library
“Imagination draws on memory. Memory and imagination combined can stage a Servants' Ball or even write a book, if that's what they want to do.”
— Thornton Wilder, book Theophilus North
Theophilus North (1973)
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Edgar Degas (1834–1917) French artist
Quote of Degas in 1883, as cited by Colin B. Bailey, in The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism, publish. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 30 note 10
Degas confided this to Pierre-George Jeanniot
1876 - 1895
“It’s still a memory worth having, even if it’s not exactly what you imagined”
Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride
Variant: It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.
Source: Along for the Ride
Philip Roth book The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
Opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988)
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) French artist
C'est très bien de copier ce qu'on voit, c'est beaucoup mieux de dessiner ce que l'on ne voit plus que dans son mémoire. C'est une transformation pendant laquelle l'ingéniosité collabore avec la mémoire. Vous ne reproduisez que ce qui vous a frappé, c'est-à-dire le nécessaire.
Quoted in Maurice Sérullaz, L'univers de Degas (H. Scrépel, 1979), p. 13
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“Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.”
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) French painter and printmaker
“Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“Imagination, he realized, came harder than memory.”
John Irving book The World According to Garp
The World According to Garp, ch. 5
Shulamith Firestone book The Dialectic of Sex
http://books.google.com/books?id=YnY10fNqqp4C&q=%22There+is+some+irony+in+the+fact+that+children+imagine+that+parents+can+do+what+they+want+and+parents+imagine+that+children+do+When+I+grow+up+parallels+Oh+to+be+a+child+again%22&pg=PA102#v=onepage <br class="br">The Dialectic of Sex (1970)
