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“Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.”

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Angela Carter was an English novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She is recognized for her imaginative and surreal narratives, frequently incorporating elements of fantasy, folklore, and Gothic literature. Carter's writing is celebrated for its intricate prose and exploration of themes like gender, class, and identity. more

“The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured, and highly sensitive both to emotional and intellectual contexts. And while the whole public most certainly does not consist in that sort of individual, still the tendency of art is to create such a public - to lift the level of perceptivity, to increase and enrich the average individual's store of values... I believe that it is in a certain devotion to concepts of truth that we discover values.”

“The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.”

Mean Light Action Objects Fundamentals Mediums Print Chemicals

Author:Rudolf Arnheim

“The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker had a modifying influence on what was going on.”

Action Influence Ambition Photography Avoiding Spontaneity Indication Instantaneous Modifying

Author:Rudolf Arnheim

“When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.”

Whole Loses Pieces Shapes Mass Complexes Patterns Details Organize Vague Nuance Snapshots

Book:Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

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