“There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless. What is this quality? What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible - significant form.”
Clive Bell
It’s all just about light becoming form and knowledge becoming mystery.
(Careful here! Knowledge becoming mystery is art. Mystery becoming knowledge is science. Either overdone is accountancy.)
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
G.K. Chesterton
The language of photography is most eloquent when it addresses not what something used to be but what it might become.
