169 quotes found
“The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what...”
“Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.”
“Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others.”
“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”
“Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.”
“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.”
“Life is not about significant details illuminated in a flash fixed forever. Photographs are.”
“Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid it is healthy to keep on formulating them.”
“It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear endearing touching precious. At least the past is safe-though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in t...”
