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Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?'

John Paul Caponigro

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John Paul Caponigro
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 23
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How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?
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The primary mode of experiencing images is non-verbal... but once it's brought out into the light of the day, what's understood by the subconscious intuitive mind can be better grasped by the conscious rational mind. Aligning the two produces powerful results.
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Mysterious spaces cause us to turn inward. Amid a rich upwelling of association, we encounter many aspects of ourselves. As we grow still, we come in contact with a unified, empty, yet full ground of our being. As our consciousness grows more spacious, we find connections between us and the wider world, a shared greater reality.
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Visual artists choreograph dances for the eyes, guiding visual journeys in specific ways. But when presented with little or nothing, the journeys of the eyes become erratic and finally still their restless searching. The eye and mind and heart grow quiet, come to rest, and begin to understand their own functioning more deeply.
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Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.
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Education, or enrichment, is a dynamic, evolving, lifelong process. Every time you look, sensitively with awareness, your vision grows.
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We see the world through our experience.
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To be sure, not all moments are equally fleeting. Some moments last longer than others. And certain events do reoccur more than once and even recur repeatedly. Sometimes you do get more than one chance. Sometimes you don't. It helps to know how long a window of opportunity you have and if you'll get another chance.
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Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much.
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Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.
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Seeing creates growth.
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Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force. When less color and less intense color is present, trace amounts and subtle differences become highly significant and are strongly felt.
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Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both.
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Amid countless everyday miracles, I come in contact with something greater than myself and realize I am a part of it... I move in wonder through inspiration, reverence, gratitude, interconnectedness, transcendence, and grace.
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Above all, remember that the computer simply isn't as intelligent as you are.
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We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved in making art if we truly engage the process we are changed by it.
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Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.
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Looking and seeing are two different things.
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A good question has many answers.
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What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.
John Paul Caponigro