"My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of taking. At such times, I rely on intuitive, perceptual responses to guide me, using reason only after the final print is made to accept or reject the results of my work."

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Source : Wynn Bullock, Raphael Shevelev (1993). “The enchanted landscape: photographs 1940-1975”, Aperture

Wynn Bullock

#Finals Quotes #Reason Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.”
“You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'”
“As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.”
“I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?”
“The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.”
“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.”
“If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.”
“Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model's career, as ironic as that sounds. It's how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.”

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