Famous quotes containing the word photo:
“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In thisas in other waysthey 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.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“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....”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“A photo of someone elses childhood,
a garden in another countryworld
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
gonegone for ever!”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)