"Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of icon, or visual likeness, which bears an indexical relationship to its object."

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Source : Rosalind E. Krauss (1986). “The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths”, p.203, MIT Press

Rosalind E. Krauss

#Reflection Quotes #Light Quotes #Icons Quotes

“The thing about Dirk [Gently] is that he's very lonely.”
“The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.”

Source : Michael Foot's remarks on the Profumo Scandal, 1963.
“It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.”
“I enjoy learning technical details.”
“I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.”
“High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.”
“Obviously, Iâ€™m kind of loyal to Tom [Welling] because thatâ€™s who I work with so to me heâ€™s my Superman.”
“What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person”

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