"As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean."

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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

Aaron Siskind

#Photography Quotes #Mean Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes

“It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.”
“I really loved when Prada Sport came into fashion, which kind of created all the nylon which she had for quite some time. You also wanted a Prada bag, you wanted a Prada shoe, not that you don't today, but that craze for Prada accessories was really big. It was a really big deal.”
“The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it. How to penetrate the great secrets of the universe and damn the torpedoes. How to stir the demons of our destiny.”
“To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.”
“I have had the opportunity to meet men and women working in the sex trade in my travels to Mexico's northern and southern borders.”
“At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time. We know that every particle in the physical universe takes its characteristics from the pitch and pattern and overtones of its particular frequencies, its singing. Before we make music, music makes us.”
“Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.”

Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House
“I dont consider the bloody ROI.”

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