The Only Interesting Ideas Are Heresies

The Moral Pleasure In Art, As Well As The Moral Service That Art Performs, Consists In The Intelligent Gratification Of Consciousness.

Knowing A Great Deal About What Is In The World Art, Catastrophe, The Beauties Of Nature Through Photographic Images, People Are Frequently Disappointed, Surprised, Unmoved When The See The Real Thing. For Photographic Images Tend To Subtract Feeling From Something We Experience At First Hand And The Feelings They Do Arouse Are, Largely, Not Those We Have In Real Life. Often Something Disturbs Us More In Photographed Form Than It Does When We Actually Experience It.

Each Generation Has To Reinvent Spirituality.

Strictly Speaking, It Is Doubtful That A Photograph Can Help Us Understand Anything.

The Process Of Building A Self And Its Works Is Always Too Slow. One Is Always In Arrears To Oneself.