Do you really want to follow the next thought, wherever it leads? -Anon
Do you really want to follow the next thought, wherever it leads? -Anon
In 1974 Paul Strand was asked how he chose the things he photographed: ‘I don’t,’ he replied. ‘They choose me’
Colour tends to corrupt photography and absolute colour corrupts absolutely . . . There are four simple words for the matter which must be whispered: colour photography is vulgar. – Walker Evans – 1969
Most negatively valenced emotions are not rooted in the present. – Anon
The technology and sophistication of the present-day camera seems to grow proportionally to the increasingly boring subject matter it records – Steve Pippin
Standing behind the camera, looking through the viewfinder, closing the shutter, is like momentarily departing the world -Naoya Hatakeyama Photographer
Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Television is a stream of underselected images, each of which cancels its predecessor. Each still photograph is a privileged moment, turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again. – Sunsan Sontag – On Photography
The fundamental aim of meditation is to deconstruct the self, not shore it up. – Anon
Landscape photographs should be simple things …but they never are… we are always adding- allegories, histories, memories, emotions and spiritual insights. – Hope Kingsley
We suffer more in imagination than in reality. – Seneca There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. – Shakespeare, Hamlet Distraction is the only thing that consoles us from miseries yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. – Pascal