“The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself”
― Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009
― Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009
“Unfortunately I am a completely impractical person, caught up in endless trains of thought. All of us are fantasists, ill-equipped for life, the children as much as myself. It seems to me sometimes that we never get used to being on this earth and life is just one great, ongoing, incomprehensible blunder.”
― The Rings of Saturn
― The Rings of Saturn
“Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.”
― The Rings of Saturn
― The Rings of Saturn
“To remain innocent may also be to remain ignorant.”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
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