PHILOSOPHY

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?"

But it is, why in God's name isn't everyone creative?

Abraham Maslow

 

“As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended,

the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like

to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.” – Aaron Siskind “

 

Photography is a process of Analysis and Syntheses

and when you go (back) out to photograph

you don't think about any of that.

Warren Hill

 

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete,

those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty,

and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics

will see its moral lesson.

It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

-Oscar Wilde

 

 

“As the saying goes, we see in terms of our education.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there.

We have been conditioned to expect.

And indeed it is socially useful that we agree on the function of objects.

But, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right.

Watch them grow large as you approach,

group and regroup as you shift your position.

Relationships gradually emerge

and sometimes assert themselves with finality.

And that’s your picture.” – Aaron Siskind

 

“In any art, you don’t know in advance what you want to say

– it’s revealed to you as you say it

That’s the difference between art and illustration.” – Aaron Siskind

 

 

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography,

and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography,

is not enough to satisfy the man of today,

compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.” – Aaron Siskind “

 

 

No better way is there to learn to love Nature

than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field.

And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty

which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred

to wood or canvas

will probably not throw the customary stone.

Oscar Wilde

 

"The only nature I’m interested in is my own nature.” – Aaron Siskind

 

 

Most people are other people.

Their thoughts are someone else's opinions,

their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

 

 

 

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