Famous quotes containing the words truth, claim, photography and/or criticism:
“All’s over, then: does truth sound bitter
As one at first believes?”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“I couldn’t claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.”
—Kathleen Raine (b. 1908)
“Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their Craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.”
—Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870–1942)
“However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)