ALISSA MURPHY
“Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.” – Eliot Porter
But before all else, a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium second.... Love is the general criterion by which the rare photograph is judged. It must contain it to be not less than the best of which the photographer is capable.
“I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself — for the photograph — without consideration of how it may be used.” – Eliot Porter
“My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.” – Eliot Porter
“The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“Certain people always say we should go back to nature. I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seems they are more concerned that we should go back than about nature”
- Adolph Gottlieb
There is another way of seeing that involves a letting go.
When I see this way I sway transfixed and emptied,... and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this way I am above all an unscrupulous observer. »
- Annie Dillard
“To seek the essence of perception is to declare that perception is, not presumed true, but defined as access to truth.”
-Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“I see that nature has told me something… and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered, there may be mistakes or gaps; but there is something of what [nature] has told me in it.”
- Vincent Van Gogh
“There are very few people who really see with their eyes, or who open their eyes, or who live by their eyes… The vision of people is even entirely determined by painting, by what they see.”
- Leo Marchutz
Ce qui ne passe pas dans ce qui pas, ça existe.” (That which is eternal within that which is temporal, exists.)
-Vincent Van Gogh
truth does not ‘inhabit’ only ‘the inner man’, or more accurately there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.”
