"Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every corner is alive,' and this suggests what an ecological aesthetic might look like."

-- Rebecca Solnit

#Brother Quotes #Environmental Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.”
“As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.”
“And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.”
“But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.”

Source : Tami Hoag (2002). “Dark Horse”, p.34, Bantam
“Well, almost everything is open - the political documents, the (unintelligible) of cabinet meetings. What has been opened now and what had been closed are things that many governments still close, and that is police files and trial records, trial records of the special courts set up by Vichy. And especially interesting are the trial records of the Purge Trials after the war.”
“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”
“And, well, that's my story," I said. "I'm sorry that it's so, you know. Retarded.”

Source : David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.515, Titan Books
“I want my legacy to be that I was a man of character, I was a God fearing man and somebody who bettered the sport in terms of the way I represented the sport. But also that fact that I was a fierce competitor and fought the best in the world and was able to come out on top, so if those things could be said about me, then I look at it as a job well done.”

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