All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this--as in other ways--they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings... record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A photo of someone else's childhood, a garden in another country--world... he had no part in and has no power to imagine: yet the old man who has failed his memory keens over the picture-- 'Them happy days-- gone--gone for ever!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good way to think about television--in fact all the media--is as a kind of telescope in the sky, flying around, constantly looki...ng. Then from its perch in the sky, it zooms down to a single spot on the planet, a small group of people shooting each other. It takes this single event out of billions and billions of other little events and sends it zooming through space to television antennas, and then out through an electron gun into (on the average) 30 million people sitting at home in dark rooms with their eyes still. The event gets reconstructed in the brains of these people as an image. Recorded. All these 30 million people have recorded the same image from this single distant spot where they are not. This becomes their experience of that moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? In...side? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not a jogger. I'm not a photo opportunity kind of person. I am at an age where I have better sense than to make a fool of mys...elf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was the girl of the chain letter,... the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes... me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain ...and assured.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of... our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »