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«To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.»
Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Photographer)
| Keywords:
breath, capture, converge, converged, converges, converging, faculties, fleeting, fleets, image, intellectual, mastering, photograph, precise, The Fleet
«The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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adores, Big Picture, Grand Canyon, intricate, photographic, precise, printing, Real Magic, refined, skills, techniques, The Big Picture, trivia, wide-angle
«When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Science
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accepted, agree, dearest, illusions, Kepler, observation, precise, preferred, The Hard, uncomfortable
«We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.»
«You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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birds, certain, credulity, enjoyment, flowering tree, flowers, free, helps, ignorance, margin, margins, must not, precise, scientific, these, too much, trees, vagueness, watercraft
«Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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applied, associations, black book, black magic, book review, capture, disagreeable, floating, free association, implying, off-putting, precise, prejudicial, reviewer, reviewers, reviews, unimportant
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