"This idea of imposing an order is very……" — Stephen Shore
"This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In photography, you start with the whole world and every decision you make imposes an order on it. The question is to what extent it’s an idealized order I’m imposing or is it an order that grows out of what the world looks like."
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15 Quotes by Stephen Shore
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If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.
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The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.
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A photograph has edges the world does not.
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I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.
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I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the…
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There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one…
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Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer…
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with…
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[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to…
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It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel…
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Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our…
— Sigmund Freud
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We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.
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"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead…
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Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer…
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We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort
— John Ashcroft
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...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.
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