"Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph...." - Quote by Franz Kafka
Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.
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“We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”
“The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.”
“The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.”
More on Photography
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.”
“Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away.”
“What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ?George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.”
More on Deception
“He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose, he would perhaps have done better to powder his countenance also, for there was something in its very wrinkles, and in his cold restless eye, which seemed to tell of cunning that would announce itself in spite of him.”
“Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!”
“When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.”