Reciprocal Analogy

"It is imagination that first taught man the moral meaning of color, of contour, of sound, and of scent. In the beginning of the world it created analogy and metaphor. What would be truly surprising would be to find that sound could not suggest colour, that colours could not evoke the idea of a melody, and that sound and colour were unsuitable for the translation of ideas, seeing that things have always found their expression through a system of reciprocal analogy."

- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

Everything We See

"Everything we see 

hides another thing,

we always want to see 

what is hidden by what we see."

"Only thought can resemble.

It resembles by

 being what it sees, 

hears, or knows; 

it becomes what 

the world offers it."

- Rene Magritte (1898 - 1967)

Matter into Spirit

"It is not God
who will save us,
it is we who
will save God...

...by battling,
by creating,
and by transmuting
matter into spirit."

- Nikos Kazantzakis (1883 - 1957)

Making the Invisible Visible

"The camera is not only an 

extension of the eye but of the brain.

It can see sharper, farther, 

nearer, slower, faster than the eye.

It can see by invisible light.

It can see in the past, 

present, and future.

Instead of using the camera 

only to reproduce objects, 

 I wanted to use it to make what is 

invisible to the eye — visible. "

- Wynn Bullock (1902 - 1975)

Oneness

"The first peace, which is 

the most important, 

is that which comes within 

the souls of people when

they realize their relationship, 

their oneness,

with the universe and 

all its powers,

and when they realize 

that at the center of the

universe dwells the Great Spirit,

and that this center is 

really everywhere,

it is within each of us."

- Black Elk (1863 - 1950)

Penetrating Matter

“The farther and more deeply

we penetrate into matter,

by means of increasingly

powerful methods,

the more we are confounded by

the interdependence of its parts...

It is impossible to cut into the network,

to isolate a portion without it becoming

frayed and unravelled at all its edges.”

- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881-1955)

World and Self

"To the vast majority of people 

a photograph is an

image of something within 

their direct experience:

a more-or-less factual reality.

It is difficult for them 

to realize that the

photograph can be the source 

of experience, as well as the

reflection of spiritual awareness 

of the world and of self."

- Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)