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photography art thinking
I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art. Carl Andre
photography stress conscious
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced. Aaron Siskind
photography self order
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder). Aaron Siskind
photography taken talking
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole. Aaron Siskind
photography simple together
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together. Aaron Siskind
photography touching feelings
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. Aaron Siskind
photography memories character
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction. Aaron Siskind
photography taken discovery
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me. Aaron Siskind
photography my-own
The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature. Aaron Siskind
imagination want not-interested
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. Carlos Fuentes
imagination use analogies
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. Carlos Fuentes
imagination inquiry causes
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture. Charles Caleb Colton
imagination life-is figments
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you. Byron Katie
imagination
The imagination is always the best torturer. Bryce Courtenay
imagination literary smallest
I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers. Elliot Perlman
imagination life
You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
imagination
There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy. Kate Micucci
imagination people empathy
Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people. Jane Addams
ordinary-extraordinary honest starting
Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary. Ricky Gervais
ordinary ridiculous buried
There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person. Alan Moore
ordinary moments extraordinary
Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being. Brian Jacques
ordinary genius done
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. Benjamin Haydon
ordinary
Every day is ordinary, until it isn't. Bernard Cornwell
ordinary
I don’t do ordinary work. That is not me in the least. Desiree Rogers
ordinary enchanted said
He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary. Dean Koontz
ordinary earth violence
In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature. Charles Lyell
ordinary stories littles
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. Charles Kuralt