“Evans wanted his photographs to be "literate, authoritative, transcendent." The moral universe of the 1930s being no longer ours, these adjectives are barely creditable today. Nobody demands that photography be literate. Nobody can imagine how it could be authoritative. Nobody understands how anything, least of all a photograph, could be transcendent.”
"America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly", p. 31
On Photography (1977)
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American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933–2004Related quotes
“Nobody ever made a grammatical error in a non-literate society.”
Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 271
“Nobody took it [Mein Kampf] seriously, nobody could, for nobody could make head or tail out of it.”
Source: The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939), p. 20
“Nobody could work a room like Rod—nobody.”
Jan Schakowsky, to Chicago Magazine, 2009
Source: Chicago Straight, David, Bernstein, June 2009, Chicago magazine, Tribune Media Group, June 29, 2015 http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-2009/Chicago-Straight/,
“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”
Source: Thirst for Love
"Three Methods Of Reform" in Pamphlets : Translated from the Russian (1900) as translated by Aylmer Maude, p. 29
As quoted in The Artist's Way at Work : Riding the Dragon (1999) by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160
Variant: Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
“Let's face it, nobody could paint eyes like El Greco, and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.”
Referring to himself in the third person, page 39. Cited also in " The lady behind those Keane-eyed kids https://books.google.com/books?id=2FMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56," LIFE 69, no. 21 (20 November 1970), p. 56; by Amy M. Spindler, " Style; An Eye for an Eye http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/23/magazine/style-an-eye-for-an-eye.html," The New York Times (23 May 1999); and by Jesse Hamlin, " Artist Margaret Keane hasn't lost wide-eyed enthusiasm for work http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Artist-Margaret-Keane-hasn-t-lost-wide-eyed-5955625.php," SFGate (14 Decembet 2014).
1965, Cited by Jane Howard