Marcus

“Kensuke and his wife had, like all bored people, a sense of kindness that was close to disease.”
― Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

“The photographic moment for Cartier-Bresson is an instant, a fraction of a second, and he stalks that instant as though it were a wild animal. The photographic moment for Strand is a biographical or historic moment, whose duration is ideally measured not by seconds but by its relation to a lifetime. Strand does not pursue an instant, but encourages a moment to arise as one might encourage a story to be told.”
― John Berger, Understanding a Photograph

“The truth is that most photographs taken of people are about suffering, and most of that suffering is man-made.”
― John Berger, Understanding a Photograph

“She wished him very well; but he gave her pain, and his welfare twenty miles off would administer most satisfaction.”
― Jane Austen, Emma