Quotes by Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie. >>

A confession has to be part of your new life. >>

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If >>

Quotations about Photography

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would n >>

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there -- even if >>

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. >>

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig