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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the bores of perception.

(Apologies to Mr. Huxley!)

“Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.”

Susan Sontag

Form, content, space… simplify, just think of them collectively as juxtaposition.

“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”

Edward R. Murrow

Teaching, really good teaching, is performance art.

“Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.”

Edward Weston

Funny thing narrative and useful too. However I think the real story is one’s relationship with the work. What do you bring to it and what does it bring to you?

“It has never been my objective to record my dreams, just to realize them.”

Man Ray

Aesthetic judgments may be kissing cousins to our emotions but the gene pool goes all to hell when cousins marry.

“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.”

Tom Stoppard