"The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images."

-- Luigi Ghirri

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“I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Feb 06, 2013
“Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.”

Source : June Jordan (2004). “Soulscript: a collection of African American poetry”, Broadway
“I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.”

Source : Archie Fairly Carr (1967). “So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles”
“The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!”

Source : Epes Sargent (1849). “Songs of the sea, with other poems”, p.119
“I think that DDT holds a lot of promise. It hasn't been banned everywhere - obviously it has in the U.S. In fact, about 10 years ago, the WHO came out with a statement promoting it for public health interventions in many countries. It's cheap. It's very, very effective. We've never had an insecticide that has worked so well since. It's also safe. A lot of people don't realize that its toxicity profile for humans is low.”

Source : "Attention Turns To Repelling Mosquitoes That Carry Zika, Dengue". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 2, 2016.
“Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the object and its own life , through the spectator, with his expectations, interpretations, back into life.”
“By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing.”

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