Lewis Carroll Quotes

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

Lewis Carroll

• Photography
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• Novel-writing

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• The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Discovery
  • Most

• Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Desire
  • Alone
  • Moment

• There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Question
  • Photography
  • Environmental

• The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Moments
  • Discovery

• Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Community
  • Listen
  • Discovery

• But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Like
  • Discovery
  • Invention

• The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Broken
  • Down
  • Discovery

• I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Information
  • Photography

• People say they have to express their emotions. I’m sick of that. Photography doesn’t teach you how to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

  

  Berenice Abbott
  • People
  • Sick
  • Photography

• Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Earth
  • Photography

• I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Movie
  • Photography

• Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Dance
  • Photography
  • Ballet

• My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I've done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I would love to study photography.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Study
  • Photography

• Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Photography

• I'm staying with film, and with silver prints, and no Photoshop. That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer... I'm not anti-digital; I just think, for me, film works better.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Picture
  • Photography

• There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything.

  

  Duane Michals
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it ended up working.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Up
  • Age
  • Control

• ... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Miracle
  • Discovery
  • Perpetual

• Many priests say that retirement is more identified with freedom from meetings, budgets, personnel conflicts, and "dealing with the Chancery." Even as I struggled not to take that last point too personally, I was reminded that I have heard the same sentiment from many of my bishop friends as well!

  

  Wilton Daniel Gregory
  • Conflict
  • Retirement

• It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Black
  • Hours
  • Tonight

• The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Photography
  • Discovery
  • Novel-writing