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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
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The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
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The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
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We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
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Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
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The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
