Anders Petersen
[Photographer, b. 1944, Solna, Sweden, lives in Stockholm.]
(Be wary of:nicely formulated principles and truths.
useless feelings of guilt and sins of the past
or while we’re at it
a
photograph resembling pretty adjectives
on the other hand, I like private
diaries and family albums
Edwin Parker “Cy” Twombly
[Artist, b. 1928, Lexington, Virginia, d. 2011, Rome.]
The Image cannotbe dis possessed of a
priMORdial
freshness
which IDEAS
CAN NEVER CLAIM
Jay Maisel
[Photographer, b. 1931, Brooklyn, New York, lives in New York.]
I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I’ll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, “I try to create the poem from the evidence.” John Ruskin
[Artist, writer and poet, b. 1819, London, d. 1900, Coniston Water, England.]
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one. John Ashbery
[Poet and critic, b. 1927, Rochester, New York, d. 2017, Hudson, New York.]
For although memories, of a season, for example,Melt into a single snapshot, one cannot guard, treasure
That stalled moment. It too is flowing, fleeting;?
It is a picture of flowing, scenery, though living, mortal,
Over which an abstract action is laid out in blunt,?
Harsh strokes.?
Óscar Muñoz
[Artist, b. 1951, Popayán, Colombia, lives in Cali, Colombia.]
It is the poetic value of a work that can potentially transform a person. John Ashbery
[Poet and critic, b. 1927, Rochester, New York, d. 2017, Hudson, New York.]
I feel the carousel starting slowly?And going faster and faster: desk, papers, books,?
Photographs of friends, the window and the trees?
Merging in one neutral band that surrounds?
Me on all sides, everywhere I look.?
T.S. Elliot
[Poet and critic, b. 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, d. 1965, London.]
What are the roots that clutch, what branches growOut of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images.