G. Steve Journal

Takes Two

In an interview in Design Arts Daily about collecting photographs, Michelle Marsh Dunn observes that:

" I operate under Minor White’s philosophy that the viewer is as responsible as the photographer for activating an image..."

What an interesting and insightful perspective!

Far Beyond

In a recent CHRONOGRAM book review of David Rothenberg's "Survival of the Beautiful" the reviewer closes with the author's intriguing conclusion:

"There is meaning in nature far beyond use; there is form and beauty far beyond function."

No Reason

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint

                                                                    Edward Hopper

Discovery

A few weeks ago I posted an excerpt from a column by the TIMES Frank Bruni about appreciating the world at hand.  After Bruni's piece was published, he writes in his blog that a reader sent in passage from T. S. Eliot that makes a similar observation: 

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.