"Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them."

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Source : Frank Gohlke (2009). “Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews”, p.72, Hol Art Books

Frank Gohlke

#Photography Quotes #Reality Quotes #Unlocking Quotes

“They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.”
“Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.”
“If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.”
“The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.”
“The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.”
“John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.”
“Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.”
“Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.”

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