Sunday, 05 April 2009

• What is done with time, time will respect it

  What is done with time, time will respect it

   

  “'There are as many photographers as there are owners of cameras,' he says. 'Just as any sensitive human being is potentially an artist. But if you have a gift, it's your obligation to pursue it. You have to live, you have to read, and you have to look. So few people really look - I mean search with their eyes. They identify,' he imitates a rapid, page-turning motion, 'Quick! Quick! Like this. You see? But looking is questioning, searching. Questioning the relationship of one thing to another and enjoying. It needs concentration. And it needs time. It was Rodin who said, 'What is done with time, time will respect it.'”

   

  ( “A Life in Pictures”.  The Guardian.  31 January 1998.  An article on the great photographer Henri Cartier Bresson)

   

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/1998/jan/31/photography.artsfeatures

   

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