Ralph Maxwell famous quotes

It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life.
-- Ralph Maxwell

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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

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.

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.

Life is an incurable disease.

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

The next time you get scared, get sacred!

Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.