The Age of Light Quotes

“Lee could assemble an entire history from the photos that would tell any version of the story she wants. But back then, that first summer in Paris, she didn't yet know the power of pictures, how a frame creates reality, how a photograph becomes memory becomes truth. 

Or Lee could tell the real story: the one where she loved a man and he loved her, but in the end they took everything from each other - who can say who was more destroyed?”
― Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light

“I think the world..the world continues just goes on doing what it does whether I take a picture or not. My art--it's about choosing when I release the shutter. It's not about setting up a scene and making a picture of it. It's about being somewhere at the exact right moment and deciding it's a moment when no one else might think it's anything.”
― Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light

“I think the world..the world continues just goes on doing what it does whether I take a picture or not. My art--it's about choosing when I release the shutter. It's not about setting up a scene and making a picture of it. It's about being somewhere at the exact right moment and deciding it's a moment when no one else might think it's anything.
He nods. "I like that.”
― Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light

“alone but not lonely, needing no one, living her life with intention.”
― Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light

“Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. —Rainer Maria Rilke”
― Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light

“Life is a series of choices between wonders.”
― Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light

“Lee has always been good at solving problems by leaving, ducking out of parties she no longer wants to be at without saying goodbye, moving across an ocean to get away from a job she no longer enjoys. If she leaves, maybe she can stave off the sadness that threatens to engulf her.”
― Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light

“In the end, Lee thinks, their personal drama makes their art work, and she can't help thinking of herself with Man, the way she can't separate her feelings for him from the work they do together.”
― Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light