"The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts."

-- Walker Evans

#Photography Quotes #Eye Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.”
“One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.”
“I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them.”
“Sleep came slower than a frigid woman.”
“Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.”
“No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.”

Source : Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.136, Simon and Schuster
“I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry ...”

Source : Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.142, Carcanet
“Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.”

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