"Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and I think, staging.... taking that moment of observation and letting it go, giving it some wings, following it, rather than nailing it. You're riffing off of reality."

-- Larry Sultan

#Photography Quotes #Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
“People make excuses [for not wanting to fight me]. It has a lot to do with my style. I'm a crafty fighter but I can also punch.”
“I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.”

Source : As quoted in an interview "Man Ray: Photographer" published in Camera, edited by Philippe Sers, 1981.
“That song "Futuro" was written by Quique Rangel, the bassist. I wouldn't know how to explain the song, but each would have to give their own interpretation. If the lyrics generate that message for you, then that's good.”
“Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.”

Source : "Feeling and Form". Book by Susanne Katherina Langer, ch. 1, p. 27, 1953.
“I am the first model in the history of Victoria's Secret shows who walked the show wearing her TWA. Hence, I felt very special when I actually got the request to walk the show wearing my TWA.”
“India then being four-sided in plan, the side which looks to the Orient and that to the South, the Great Sea compasseth; that towards the Arctic is divided by the mountain chain of Hmdus from Scythia, inhabited by that tribe of Scythians who are called Sakai; and on the fourth side, turned towards the West, the Indus marks the boundary, the biggest or nearly so of all rivers after the Nile.”
“Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'”

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