Second Aphorisms - For Tiffy

I

A picture is worth a thousand words.

II

A picture contains in it not scenery, but the emotions within the scene and the emotions triggered by the scene.

III

A picture is thus the gathering of all emotions present; a concentration of feelings that stands forth at the moment of perceiving it.

IV

The content of the picture no longer matters: those thousands and thousands of words are not descriptive words; they are expressive words - words of poetry, not jounrnalism.

V

A picture is valuable for its simplicity. Simplicity is often touching enough to cover up the flaws of a work, like Schubert's Sonata #14.

VI

The moment of the picture is the only time in which memories are allowed to be taken out of context; but ironically pictures are taken so that the context can be vividly remembered.

VII

What happened at the moment of when the picture is taken? This is a mystery solved by the picture, for only the picture can grasp the totality of the happening - I was simply busy smiling.

VIII

The picture that hangs over the abyss of time possesses my heart.