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The Suburban West Is, From A Moral Perspective, Depressing Evidence That We Have Misused Our Freedom. There Is, However, Another Aspect To The Landscape, An Unexpected Glory. Over The Cheap Tracts And Littered Arroyos One Sometimes See A Light As Clean As That Recorded By O'sullivan. Since It Owes Nothing To Our Care, It Is An Assurance; Beauty Is Final.

In A Foreign Country It Is Far From Easy To Study A Scene At Length When You Know That At Any Minute Someone May Appear And Ask What You Are Doing And That You Can't Answer, And You Haven't Many References, And You Don't Know The Law. Neither Is It Easy To Find And Know The Subjects For Portraits Or Comfortable To Make Such Picture When You Cannot Apply An Anesthesia Of Small Talk.

Why Do Most Great Pictures Look Uncontrived? Why Do Photographers Bother With The Deception, Especially Since It So Often Requires The Hardest Work Of All? The Answer Is, I Think, That The Deception Is Necessary If The Goal Of Art Is To Be Reached: Only Pictures That Look As If They Had Been Easily Made Can Convincingly Suggest That Beauty Is Commonplace.

The Highest Truth Is To Delete, Not To Add. To Get Rid Of The Things You Believe In Now. So Empty Yourself Out Totally And Completely. All Of Your Ideas, Your Feelings, All Have To Be Emptied Out Of You. When You Become Totally And Completely Empty There Is Nothing You Have To Do To Fill It Up Again. Emptiness Is Realization. Emptiness Is Brahman. Emptiness Is The Self. Emptiness Is Your Real Nature.

The Only Burden You Have Ever Had Is Your Mind.