“As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.” SometimesEyeMovingBeliefLeftGrowsWatchesGroupsPositionObjectsApproachPhotographerRelaxFinality Author:Aaron Siskind
“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood.” IfsMenWould BeParentRaceWatchesPowerFateChildhoodMinutesObjectsAuthorityAbsolutesContraryOppressionSecurePerpetualImmenseManhoodGratification Book:Democracy in America Source: Democracy in America
“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object - and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.” MenLooksTurnsVisionWatchesObjectsMen And WomenFemaleSightRelationMalesDetermineMen WomenSurveyors Author:John Berger
“Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.” SometimesFacesWatchesObjectsStrangePersonalitySightContemplatingTowersStatuesEdificeInanimate Objects Book:Ninety-three Source: Ninety-three
“Hold a baseball in your hand ... Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.” WayWantFeelsHandsTurnsGamesSidesWatchesMiddleObjectsBaseballBallsFingersSensualSparesSpeculationMiddle Finger Book:Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion Source: Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion
“We don't sell a watch to give time. We sell a piece of art. We sell an object that represents something to you, you know. It's like you have a nice shirt or a nice jacket. It's like a luxury accessories that can be considered like shoes or like handbags for ladies.” KnowsGivingArtWatchesPiecesNiceObjectsLike YouSellsShoesLuxuryShirtsJacketsAccessoriesHandbags Author:Ricardo Guadalupe
“They call it football, but the object of the game is to bash the other guy so hard that he's eventually carried off the field on a stretcher. I can't watch football anymore. My psychiatrist said it's better that way. I used to watch a game, see the players in a huddle - and think they were talking about me.” ThinkingWaySaidI CanHardUsedGuyGamesTalkingWatchesPlayerFieldsObjectsFootballPsychiatristOther GuysBashTalking About Me Author:Jackie Mason
“Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never changes. He doesn't examine like a doctor, defend like a lawyer, analyze like a scholar, support like a priest, make people laugh like a comedian, or intoxicate like a singer. He only watches. This is enough. No, this is all I can do. All a photographer can do is watch. Therefore, a photographer has to watch all the time. He must face the object and make his entire body an eye. A photographer is someone who wagers everything on seeing.” PeoplePersonsI CanSometimesEnoughBodyEyeFacesCan DoWatchesSupportLaughingSeeingObjectsDoctorsPhotographerLawyerSingersComedianPriestsScholarNever ChangeMaking People LaughPassengersWagers Author:Shomei Tomatsu