"Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context and supplemental information to confirm our observations, not simply the documents themselves."

-- John Paul Caponigro

#Littles Quotes #Information Quotes #Photographer Quotes

“We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide...”
“Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.”
“When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, 'What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?' But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That's where the power comes from. That's where sermons are born. That's where every good thought is conceived.”
“I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit”

Source : "A Conversation with Edmond White By Edmond White". www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1996.
“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.”
“Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.”
“I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.”

Source : Siri Engberg, Kiki Smith, Linda Nochlin, Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2005). “Kiki Smith: a gathering, 1980-2005”
“It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life fruit in the thick of a wood; but where people are planted sparely it blossoms and matures, like apples on a standard or an espalier. It flourishes where the inn and lodging-house cannot exist.”

Source : Hugh Miller, William Samuel Symonds (1858). “The Cruise of the Betsy; Or, a Summer Ramble Among the Fossilferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist; Or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossilferous Deposits of Scotland. [Edited by W. S. Symonds.]”, p.133

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