“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
—Émile Zola
Wednesday Wisdom
“Curiosity is insubordination in it’s purest form”
- Vladimir Nabokov
Wednesday Wisdom
:The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.”
- James Baldwin
Wednesday Wisdom
“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
— Diane Arbus
Wednesday Wisdom
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I see, and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
- Joan Didion
Wednesday Wisdom
“It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.”
- Lewis Baltz
Wednesday Wisdom...
“You cannot depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out of focus. “
- Mark Twain
Wednesday Wisdom...
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
“There are too many images, too many cameras now. We’re all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful. Nothing is really all that special. It’s just life. If all moments are recorded, then nothing is beautiful and maybe photography isn’t an art anymore. Maybe it never was”
“Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”
- Robert Frank
In memory of Robert Frank who died yesterday at the age of 94.
(I couldn’t pick my one favorite, so here are four. There could have been many more…
Wednesday Wisdom...
“When I have a camera in my hand I know no fear”
– Alfred Eisenstaedt
Wednesday Wisdom...
"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. "
- Virginia Woolf