“Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to come from nowhere at all except his own subjective musing. But I shall never forget how struck I was, on visiting Tobey's studio one day, to see strewn around books on astronomy and photographs of the Milky Way. I knew then that Tobey experiences the movement of the stars and solar constellations as the external pole of his encounter.” WayFirstsBookSeemsBeautifulStarsLinesForgetMovementOne DayMarkPhotographStudiosAstronomyAbstractEncountersNever ForgetGlancesSubjectiveVisitingConstellationsMusingsMilky Way Author:Rollo May
“And what movies we saw! All the actors and actresses whose photographs I collected, with their look of eternity! Their radiance, their eyes, their faces, their voices, the suavity of their movements! Their clothes! Even in prison movies, the stars shone in their prison clothes as if tailors had accompanied them in their downfall.” IfsLooksEyeFacesActorsStarsVoiceSawsMovementClothesEternityPrisonPhotographActressesMovieRadianceDownfallTailorsActors And Actresses Book:Borrowed Finery: A Memoir Source: Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
“Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.” WayScienceFoundStarsObjectsEvidenceMarkPhotographCloudsPocketsPlatesWipeIdentifyingWilsonAstronomersDomesMilky WayHandkerchiefsAndromedaNebula Author:Halton Arp
“...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan the photographs. Stop and think about them. Try to imagine the scale. The Earth is just a speck of dust on one distant whirling tentacle of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains billions of stars. A 'collision' of galaxies seems unimaginably large - and yet it is something scientists long ago imagined... The imaginings of pseudoscience are feeble by comparison.” IfsThinkingWayTryingLongSeemsEarthStarsSpaceWonderImagineMysteryEvolutionScientistPhotographBillionsScalesDustComparisonLong AgoGalaxyTelescopesCollisionSpecksPseudoscienceMilky WayTentaclesHubbleHubble Space Telescope Author:Mark Bowden