John Paul Caponigro Quotes
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The most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question?' The second most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question in the most important way?'
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We see the world through our experience.
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How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?
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With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born of subtlety and depth of perception, not complexity and perceived virtuosity.
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Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.
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Education, or enrichment, is a dynamic, evolving, lifelong process. Every time you look, sensitively with awareness, your vision grows.
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The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are limited. We create decisive moments by devoting our time and attention to specific things. This is the greatest gift we can give anyone or anything - pieces of our life.
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Art is a journey of discovery.
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Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context and supplemental information to confirm our observations, not simply the documents themselves.
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Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.
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It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.
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Mysterious spaces cause us to turn inward. Amid a rich upwelling of association, we encounter many aspects of ourselves. As we grow still, we come in contact with a unified, empty, yet full ground of our being. As our consciousness grows more spacious, we find connections between us and the wider world, a shared greater reality.
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All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few photographs are less about objects and more about the space that contains them. Still fewer photographs are about light itself.
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What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.
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We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.
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Seeing creates growth.
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Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?'
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It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something.
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Above all, remember that the computer simply isn't as intelligent as you are.
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We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved in making art; if we truly engage the process we are changed by it.
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The best plans evolve.
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A good question has many answers.
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Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much.
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Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force. When less color and less intense color is present, trace amounts and subtle differences become highly significant and are strongly felt.
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Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.
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The frame frames a frame of mind.
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A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.
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Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.
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The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light; a tool that captures the elemental and animates or holds it still at will; a tool that captures the organic flow of the earth's crust or the wash of a wave, and creates an impossible symmetry, an elemental Rorshach pattern ripe for continued exploration, divulging a thousand revelations.
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Looking and seeing are two different things.
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