Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
Imagery is like music.
The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
The past is where its supposed to be.
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.