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“What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.”

Quote by Wynn Bullock

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Wynn Bullock was an American photographer known for his unique style and profound understanding of photographic art. His work often focused on natural landscapes and human emotions, showcasing the infinite possibilities of photography through abstract and formalist techniques. more

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“It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.”

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“I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.”

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“I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my sense of, and have the skills to symbolize visually the four-dimensional structure of the universe.”

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“Everything went together perfectly, and this is what I mean by knowing. I didn't have to analyze anything. I just recognized what was in front of me. All I had to do was set up and take the picture.”

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“In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling of the reality of existence that lies mysteriously and invisibly beneath its surface, I feel I have succeeded. At their best, photographs as symbols not only serve to help illuminate some of the darkness of the unknown, they also serve to lessen the fears that too often accompany the journeys from the known to the unknown.”

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“Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.”

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