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No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
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All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire…
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I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not…
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Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail…
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If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may…
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There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind…
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When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do…
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Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because…
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...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record…
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Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is…
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The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition…
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In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute…
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Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is…
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Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The…
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Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it.…
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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon…
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The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.
— Kenneth Burke
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To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
— Philip Guston
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Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams…
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First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you…
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All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life.…
— Haniel Long
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There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that…
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I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're…
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