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Wallace Stevens : Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good. # Photography # Arts and Artists # Evil

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Wallace Stevens quote- Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate...

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Daniel J Boorstin : " The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself. " # Photography # Arts and Artists # Evil

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Marcus Aurelius : " Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil. " # Photography # Arts and Artists # Evil

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Joseph De Maistre : " We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. " # Photography # Arts and Artists # Evil

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Cato the Elder : " We cannot control the evil tongues of others but a good life enables us to disregard them. " # Photography # Arts and Artists # Evil

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Eric Hoffer : " When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. " # Photography # Arts and Artists # Evil

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Matthew Arnold : " This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. " # Photography # Arts and Artists # Evil

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Guy Debord : " In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. " # Photography # Arts and Artists # Evil

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Harold Rosenberg : " An art mode, new or old, is for the creative mind essentially a point of beginning. Content is brought into being by the activity through which the artist translates the movement into himself. In such an appropriation, there is no difference between an ongoing movement and one that is finished. During the reign of Minimalism, a painter might realize the new through Impressionism. That art history has a schedule of continuous advances en masse is a fantasy of the historian. The shared syntax of art movements is constantly replaced by the sensibility and practice of individuals. The avant-garde art of yesterday is the only modern equivalent of an aesthetic tradition. The fading of the ideas of a movement does not mean that it can no longer be a stimulus to creation. At the very dawn of a movement, the work of its artists commences to replace the concept; instead of Cubism there appear Picasso, Braque, Gris. Compared to the activities to which they give rise, ideas in art have a brief life. In the last analysis, the vitality of art in our time depends on works produced by movements after they have died. " # Photography # Arts and Artists # Evil

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Hermann Hesse : " Now everything changed. My childhood world was breaking apart around me. My parents eyed me with a certain embarrassment. My sisters had become strangers to me. A disenchantment falsified and blunted my usual feelings and joys: the garden lacked fragrance, the woods held no attraction for me, the world stood around me like a clearance sale of last year's secondhand goods, insipid, all its charm gone. Books were so much paper, music a grating noise. That is the way leaves fall around a tree in autumn, a tree unaware of the rain running down its sides, of the sun or the frost, and of life gradually retreating inward. The tree does not die. It waits. " # Photography # Arts and Artists # Evil

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Diane Arbus : " If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid. " # Photography # Arts and Artists # Evil

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Wallace Stevens: " The summer night is like a perfection of thought." # Perfection

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Wallace Stevens: " Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake." # Truth # Perseverance # Death and Dying

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Wallace Stevens: " The imagination is man's power over nature." # Imagination # Power # Nature

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Wallace Stevens: " If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism." # Egotism # Laughter # Sex

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Wallace Stevens: " Post-religious man, as Stevens saw him, still had a deep need for the kind of exaltation of the body and spirit which goes under different names in different religions — Christians call it grace, that is, the feeling or knowledge that the workings of God are revealed to the individual, thus lifting him or her up to a state of ecstatic consciousness. ... For the romantics in general such moments of ecstasis in the midst of nature are experienced by the solitary imagination, and the bonds of society are cast away as unimportant. Stevens once said that the romantic is a falsification, and perhaps the reason for the comment was his feeling that such moments of ecstatic relation in the midst of nature had to be given a social and eventually political meaning, rather than remaining in the arena of the spirit. Stevens poetry then offers a pastoral romantic ecstasis that become the occasions for searching out the relations between the individual, his or her community and the natural world." # Senses # Love # Poetry and Poets

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Wallace Stevens: " Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces." # Fiction # Books - Reading # Music

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Wallace Stevens: " To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind." # Imagination # Love # Metaphysics

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Wallace Stevens: " Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art." # Intolerance # Religion # Arts and Artists

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Wallace Stevens: " How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?" # Literature

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Wallace Stevens: " As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible." # Literature # Life and Living # Age and Aging

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