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Again The Important Point To Remember Is That You Should Keep Asking Yourself Questions. Do Not Make Statements. Ask Questions To Yourself. The Mind Hates That.

... If We Consider The Difference Between William Henry Jackson Packing In His Camera By Mule, And The Person Stepping For A Moment From His Car To Take A Picture With His Instamatic, It Becomes Clear How Some Of Our Space Has Vanished; If The Time It Takes To Cross Space Is A Way By Which We Define It, Then To Arrive At A View Of Space 'in No Time' Is To Have Denied Its Reality.

Part Of The Difficulty In Trying To Be Both An Artist And A Businessperson Is This: You Make A Picture Because You Have Seen Something Beyond Price; Then You Are To Turn And Assign To Your Record Of It A Cash Value. If The Selling Is Not Necessarily A Contradiction Of The Truth In The Picture, It Is So Close To Being A Contradiction—and The Truth Is Always In Shades Of Gray-that You Are Worn Down By The Threat.

Why Do Most Great Pictures Look Uncontrived? Why Do Photographers Bother With The Deception, Especially Since It So Often Requires The Hardest Work Of All? The Answer Is, I Think, That The Deception Is Necessary If The Goal Of Art Is To Be Reached: Only Pictures That Look As If They Had Been Easily Made Can Convincingly Suggest That Beauty Is Commonplace.

The History Of Art Is Filled With People Who Did Not Live Long Enough To Enjoy A Sympathetic Public, And Their Misery Argues That Criticism Should Try To Speed Justice.