The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.
With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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