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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so read more
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic read more
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. read more
A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that read more
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, read more
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
