The Philosophotographer

There is such a thing as a luminous red, but a color is luminous as a result of its context, in its context.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, Remarks on Colour

Between ourselves, these are things that I have always seen to be in remarkable agreement: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.

—Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience”

The world is full of signs and information, which stand for things that no one fully understands because they, too, turn out to be mere signs for other things. Yet the real thing remains hidden. No one ever gets to see it.

—Peter Zumthor, Thinking Architecture

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

—Francis Bacon, “Of Beauty”

The resistance of the thing sustains the action of man as air sustains the flight of the dove; and by projecting himself through it man accepts its being an obstacle; he assumes the risk of a setback in which he does not see a denial of his freedom.

—Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity