That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
My mother always carries around these postcard pictures of me.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.
I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.