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 »
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains f...rom any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of th...e sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"What we know, is a point to what we do not know." Open any recent journal of science, and weigh the problems suggested concerning... Light, Heat, Electricity, Magnetism, Physiology, Geology, and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.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 »
If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as the ...history of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.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 »
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theor...izer would always be in arrears, and were doomed forever to arrive at imperfect conclusions; but the power to perceive a law is equally rare in all ages of the world, and depends but little on the number of facts observed. The senses of the savage will furnish him with facts enough to set him up as a philosopher. The ancients can still speak to us with authority, even on the themes of geology and chemistry, though these subjects are thought to have had their birth in modern times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »