![[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).](/assets/img/quote-photos/x-rays-accidental-discovery-in-the-late-1800s-fits-seamlessly-into-modernitys.jpg)
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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).
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.
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.
photography touching feelings
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
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.
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.
photography my-own
The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.
discovery two broken
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure. Carl Clinton Van Doren
discovery woods violet
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard. Carl Friedrich Gauss
discovery philadelphia atheism
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit. Charlie Chaplin
discovery action motive
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves. Charles Caleb Colton
discovery heaven mystery
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure. Charles Dickens
discovery would-be elements
We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75. Dmitri Mendeleev
discovery needs attention
We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself. David Agus
discovery stories exciting
FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector. David Talbot
discovery self cosmos
We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery. Carl Sagan
desire may dangerous
A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous. C. S. Lewis
desire recognize satisfy saying
We want to recognize that it is the end of the show without really saying it. But we'll satisfy the audience's desire for a little heart. Ray Romano
desire enforce intention less name
We have no intention and even less desire to enforce this name on everything. Neil MacDonald
desire undermine whatsoever
We have no desire whatsoever to in any way erode or undermine constitutional liberties, John Ashcroft
desire imaginable judge neither nor views
We have neither desire, need, nor right to know most of Judge Roberts's views on most imaginable subjects, Ruth Ginsburg
desire alive world
For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive things are clean and fresh and alive. The so-called documentary picture left me wanting something.
desire nasty horrible
There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me Alan Sugar
desire want wicked-world
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
desire holiness repentance
Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated. Charles Spurgeon