It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
Walker EvansRead
It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as we dream, as we think, and as we cope with the world about us. But these worlds of fantasy that we form into the solid things around us are the source of our discontent. They inspire our search to find ourselves.
Interpretation
The quote explores how our imaginations create both fantasy and myth, influencing our perception of reality and our quest for identity.
Walker Evans highlights the interplay between our fantasies and realities, suggesting that while we may find comfort and inspiration in our imagined worlds, they can also lead to dissatisfaction with our actual lives. The essence of the quote lies in understanding that these fabricated realms not only shape our dreams and thoughts, but also spark our pursuit of self-discovery, making us aware of the disconnect between our idealized visions and the realities we face.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the power of imagination.
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.
Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
Now man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to move to new understandings. And in that freedom flowers all that is good and all that is beautiful.
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