"The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history."

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Source : "Seeing and Reading" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2004.

Peter Schjeldahl

#Photography Quotes #Art Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I'm horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people feel the same way.”
“What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.”

Source : Patricia Marx (1985). “You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.”
“For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.”
“Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.”
“They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.”
“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”
“The difference between being a winner and being a loser is how you pick yourself up again, especially when you're down for the third or fourth or twentieth time!”

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