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“Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.”
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“Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.”
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“The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.”
Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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“Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”
Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.
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“Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.”
Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics
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“You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.”
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“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”
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“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
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“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”
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“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”
