Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> Was it Dr Johnson who said of critics that a man doesn't have to know how >>to make a chair to tell whether it is comfortable? >> John Brownlow > >He said one does not have to be a hen to tell that an egg is rotten. Also, >if a donkey speaks, everybody can hear he's an ass; if he shuts up, some >might think he's a horse. >Jan All right, all right; as an unrepentant lover of anecdotia (particularly with regard to critics and chickens), I offer the following comment made by André Kertesz to Ralph Gibson (as quoted in Gibson's Deus ex Machina): "Photographers shoot too much film! If you go to the barnyard even a blind chicken can find grain!" Guy