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The photographic image... is a message without a code. (Bax Kylie)
If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature. (Bax Kylie)
Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their Craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era. (Bax Kylie)
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. (Bax Kylie)
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. (Bax Kylie)
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. (Bax Kylie)
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. (Bax Kylie)
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this -- as in other ways -- they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it. (Bax Kylie)
The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself. (Bax Kylie)
At least the box is full of something useful. [On his photo gracing a box of Raisin Bran] (Bax Kylie)
The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins exhumed and priced open, the photographs put on show what we were and what we will be again. (Bax Kylie)
A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there -- even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity. (Bax Kylie)
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. (Bax Kylie)
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. (Bax Kylie)
Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is. (Bax Kylie)
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. (Bax Kylie)
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph. (Bax Kylie)
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. (Bax Kylie)
Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject. (Bax Kylie)
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. (Bax Kylie)
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. (Bax Kylie)
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