Top Canon Quotes

How promising today's generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digital photos of their cat and then just delete them. But I'd like to see these kids...

The less gear you use, the more you grow as a photographer. Although there are fewer options available, you'll find more creative ways to capture what you feel! In a way, all your technical options be...

Canon Definition

(n.) A law or rule.

(n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.

(n.) The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.

(n.) In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.

(n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

(n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

(n.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.

(n.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.

(n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.

(n.) See Carom.

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and can...

Pragmatically, aesthetic value can be recognized or experienced, but it cannot be conveyed to those who are incapable of grasping its sensations and perceptions. To quarrel on its behalf is always a b...

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

If we believe the Canon is closed and Scripture is sufficient, then we believe God is not speaking new words apart from Scripture.

Photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself…

Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) ou...