Wallace Stevens
[Poet, b. 1879, Reading, Pennsylvania, d. 1955, Hartford, Connecticut.]
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
Reality as a thing seen by the mind,
Not that which is but that which is apprehended.
(Cited as applicable to photography by critic Geoff Dyer)
Not that which is but that which is apprehended.
(Cited as applicable to photography by critic Geoff Dyer)