Edward Lucie-Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this coincidence, is successfully brought about, then we find one of the things that no image-making medium can accomplish to the same degree.
-- Edward Lucie-Smith

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Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.
-- Edward Lucie-Smith

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At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly skillful advocate for the medium he has chosen to embrace.
-- Edward Lucie-Smith

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One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.
-- Edward Lucie-Smith

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I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable.
I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.
There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc. In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

Edward Lucie-Smith famous quotes

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