#graph

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#invents #past #person #photographer #records

Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#geography #humor #humour #humor

Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex rather than the real. ↗

— Virginie Despentes

#sex #food

Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a world of misery at my very door? Lord, put thine own strength in me; confirm every good resolution; forgive my past long life of uselessness and folly. ↗

— Andrew Bonar

#christianity #forgiveness

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#biography #done #great #history #writing

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem. ↗

— Jacob Appelbaum

#math #violence #freedom

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#photography #secrecy #secrets #art

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.... ↗

— Kate Morton

#past #photography #art

I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#encouragement #friendship #good-fortune #heroes #interaction

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#photography #art