A Quote by Sebastian Smee
Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.
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Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.
You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my smile is beguiling?
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Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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