"I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver."

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Source : Paul Caponigro (2002). “New England Days”, p.9, David R. Godine Publisher

Paul Caponigro

#Photography Quotes #Eye Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.”
“Life is what happens in-between the mother and the sister”
“I think as long as you learn from your mistakes, and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.”

Source : "Exclusive! Kim Kardashian West on Baby No. 2, Her New Style, and Life in the Spotlight". Interview with Alex Morris, www.glamour.com. June 1, 2015.
“It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.”

Source : Sudhir Kakar (2008). “The Seeker: A Novel”, p.99, Shambhala Publications
“Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.”
“I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.”
“God has told us Latter-day Saints that we shall be condemned if we do not enter into that principle of polygamy; and yet I have heard now and then (I am very glad to say that only a low such instances have come under my notice) a brother or a sister say, 'I am a Latter-day Saint, but I do not believe in polygamy.' Oh, what an absurd expression! What an absurd idea! A person might as well say, 'I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, but I do not believe in him.'”
“I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.”

Source : George Crook (1986). “General George Crook: His Autobiography”, p.229, University of Oklahoma Press

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