Le Corbusier, Double House, Bedroom, Weissenhofsiedlung, Stuttgart, Germany, 1927
"L’énigme du visible et de l’invisible garde son élégance d’énigme. Il est impossible de la résoudre dans un monde que l’actualité fascine et qui ne possède aucun recul."
— Jean Cocteau - Journal d’un inconnu, 1953 (via ce-sac-contient)
Lusine Zakarian, Kuzhn bought (Komitas) - Traditional Armenian folk song
Hiroshima mon amour (1959), dir. Alain Resnais, cinematography by Michio Takahashi & Sacha Vierny
“As a reporter, I hate slipshod photographs … There are two gifts which every man of images needs to be a true creator: a certain sensitivity to life, to living things, and at the same time, the art which will enable him to capture that life in a certain specific way. I’m not talking about the pure aesthetics: a confused photo just isn’t capable of penetrating the viewer’s memory. I’ve always felt that the formal structure of a photo, its composition, was just as important as the subject itself … You have to eliminate every superfluous element, you have to guide your own gaze with an iron will. You have to take the viewer’s gaze, and lead it to what is interesting.”
— Brassaï
Intellect and morality. One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powers of imagination to be able to have pity. So close is morality bound to the quality of the intellect.
Nietzsche, “Human, All too human”, Aphorism 59
