When You Abide In The I You're

Henry James Proposed Asking Of Art Three Modest And Appropriate Questions: What Is The Artist Trying To Do? Does He Do It? Was It Worth Doing?

Art Does Not In Fact Prove Anything. What It Does Do Is Record One Of Those Brief Times, Such As We Each Have And Then Each Forget, When We Are Allowed To Understand That The Creation Is Whole.

Do Not Allow Your Thoughts To Become Greater Than You. No Matter What Your Thoughts Tell You, Don't Listen. Remember Your Thoughts Are Not Your Friend. Your Thoughts Try To Confound You, Confuse You. And They Will Tell You All Kinds Of Things. Do Not Listen To Your Thoughts, Even Your Good Thoughts. Transcend Everything, Go Beyond Your Thoughts To Your Bliss, To Your Joy And To Your Happiness.

Whatever Power There Is In The Urban Pictures Is Bound To The Closeness With Which They Skirt Banality. For A Shot To Be Good — Suggestive Of More Than Just What It Is — It Has To Come Perilously Near Being Bad, Just A View Of Stuff.

Still Photographs Often Differ From Life More By Their Silence Than By The Immobility Of Their Subjects. Landscape Pictures Tend To Converge With Life, However, On Summer Nights, When The Sounds Outside, After We Call In Children And Close Garage Doors, Are Small - The Whir Of Moths, The Snap Of A Stick.