Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive … - Augusto De Luca

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Augusto De Luca

Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive properties. . . I believe that commitment and technical skill can be achieved by means of one's own will and study , while fantasy and passion are more valuable because they are innate and inescapably peculiar assets.

Believe, Commitment, Depth, Mean, Picture, Properties

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I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings. Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture.

Art, Door, Doors, Fantasy, Keys, Place

Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment. . . Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last.

Contents, Cutting, Enhances, Giving Up, Photography

I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.

Born, Mother, Rome, Running, Tiber

All my photographs seep through EMOTION , through the relationship I establish with the place I am portraying. Whenever I see something that captivates me, I start turning around it to find MY OWN frame. I work on myself and on the city at the same time.

Cities, Emotion, Photograph, Time, Work

Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much cholesterol and triglycerides. . . A collector is someone who is ready to devour the work of art that he wants to possess at all costs.

Art, Compares, Cost, Old, Want, Work