When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness … it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.

Legato’s remark links emotion to perception and memory: when we feel enthusiasm, awe, or affection, we don’t merely “add” a mood on top of neutral reality—we actively see differently. Attention narrows or expands, certain details become salient, and the experience is encoded with greater vividness and meaning. The second sentence extends the idea from immediate perception to later recall: memory is not a fixed recording but a reconstruction shaped by the emotional frame present at the time of experience (and often again at the time of remembering). In effect, the quote suggests that feeling is not the enemy of truth but a powerful lens that can heighten significance while also reshaping what we take to be “what happened.”