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The Negative

«You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.»
«To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a whimsical and farcical straw man which is not only grim but Grimm.»
«The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.»
Author: Ansel Adams (Photographer) | Keywords: The Negative
«The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.»
«I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monk»
«People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong...Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?»
«We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.»
«The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.»

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