It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.
All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.
A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.
Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools.
I said: I must remember this, being small.
Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
Night calls to the sandhills and gathers them under her. She pushes away cities because their sharp lights hurt her soft breast. Even candles make a sore place when they stick in the night.