Quotations
These words appear highly significant to me…
“To listen is to be brought to oneness,
To listen is to awake the greater love
And gently part the barriers to true seeing
The eye of truth providing the wedge
For the barriers to break and the inner ear to listen.”
“Photography is, or can be, an intellectual pursuit. In painting or sculpture or what not, the sensitive human hand aids the brain in affirming beauty. The camera has no such assistance, unless of course, the process after exposure has been interfered with, and hence ruined, by manipulation, manual dexterity.”
Edward Weston (The Daybooks, Volume I, Mexico)
“Science is a way of looking at the world from the point of view of nobody. Art is always a way of looking at the world from the point of view of a unique somebody, and we all know this is true even of the seemingly ‘objective’ medium of photography.”
Dr Mike Ware (A Bridge for Two Cultures)
“The contemplation of things as they are
Without error or confusion
Without substitution or imposture
Is in itself a nobler thing
Than a whole harvest of invention”
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
And for 40 years on the darkroom door of Dorothea Lange
(,,,,,,, and also on mine)
“The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.”