Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

Georg Simmel
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  2. A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy. - Amit Kalantri

  3. A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

  4. When you're at a loss for words. Draw a picture. - Anthony T. Hincks

  5. All she captures is a moment and what she calls it is a memory, Sometimes, it is assumptions that we use; all we need is a theory, Because you don’t know what is there in the future, And all you need is a vision to... - Nishikant

More Quotes By Georg Simmel
  1. The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with...

  2. By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline, that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

  3. Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.

  4. One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.

  5. Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

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