We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

  • -- Aaron Siskind 阿伦·西斯金德

我们看看这个世界,看看我们学会了相信什么。我们习惯于期待……但是,作为摄影师,我们必须学会放松我们的信念。

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They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

他们不知道世界是如何形成的。所以他们给它一个形状,试着让所有的东西都适合它。他们把左右分开,男人和女人分开,植物和动物分开,太阳和月亮分开。他们只想数到二。

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

我们强调,我们相信变革,因为我们诞生于变革,我们依靠变革而生存,我们依靠变革而繁荣昌盛,并因此而变得伟大。所以,现状从来就不是我们的上帝,我们不要求任何人向它低头。

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.

我想那只是一场歌剧。现在,你去看歌剧,你希望看到和听到歌剧是什么。所以,这是鲶鱼排。这是歌手。不可思议的声音。它们是什么颜色都没有关系。

No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?

无论某项政策的结果多么糟糕,任何批评该政策的人都可能听到:“但你会用什么来取代它呢?”“当你扑灭一场火时,你用什么来代替它?”

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

世界上所有的差异都是程度上的,而不是种类上的,因为统一是一切的秘密。

I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.

我相信我们必须寻求上帝的旨意,永远不要假定它与我们自己的计划或能力相一致。