"The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected."

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Source : "Nature as it is" by Jacob Deschin, New York Times, February 3, 1952.

Eli Siegel

#Photography Quotes #Purpose Quotes #World Quotes

“It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.”
“Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope youâ€™re not afraid of heights.”

Source : Song: Meaning, Album: Chariot
“Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.”
“Who knew there were so many ghosts to be busted in the world?”
“Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodiesâ€”those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!”
“Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's workings; and, spite of all your skill, I read to the depths." This is a truth more or less powerful, as one is more or less gifted by the good God.”
“Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.”
“Artists are the seeds, brave enough to live and flower before humanity. Our soil is contemplation, our water, its understanding. Whether my petals be beautiful to another, to I and The Maker, they are Unique and yet, only equally as beautiful as any other. Some call that being a Dreamer. I call it, being Belov'ed.”

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