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 »
Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the an...imals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or si...x men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.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 »
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 »
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposit...e extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. Is not our native soil auriferous? Does not a stream from the golden mountains flow through our native valley? and has not this for more than geologic ages been bringing down the shining particles and forming the nuggets for us? Yet, strange to tell, if a digger steal away, prospecting for this true gold, into the unexplored solitudes around us, there is no danger that any will dog his steps, and endeavor to supplant him. He may claim and undermine the whole valley even, both the cultivated and the uncultivated portions, his whole life long in peace, for no one will ever dispute his claim. They will not mind his cradle or his toms. He is not confined to a claim twelve feet square,... but may mine anywhere, and wash the whole wide world in his tom.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 »