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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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“Among the hardest problems an art theory faces are questions about how to settle art’s meaning through interpretation”
― But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory
― But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory
“Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.”
― Sand and Foam
― Sand and Foam
“the only thing in which I have been actually thorough has been in being thoroughly unprepared. Alfred Stieglitz”
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“Contemporary art photography is paradoxical. Anyone can look at it and form an opinion about what they see. Yet it usually represents aesthetic and theoretical positions that only a small minority of well-informed viewers can access.”
― Why Art Photography?
― Why Art Photography?
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