"I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck on a pin and put in a glass case. I want to see the sunlight on its wings as it flits from flower to flower and I don't care a rap what its Latin name may be."

--

Source : Jacob August Riis (1901). “The Making of an American”

Jacob August Riis

#Photography Quotes #Latin Quotes #Flower Quotes

“When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.”
“I'll be whatever you allow me to be, Blaire. Just don't shut me out again. Please.”
“That's the thing about love. You can plan it, and schedule it, and map it out. You can tell it how you want it to be, and where you want it to go, and what it's supposed to do. You can try to make it fit you. But it won't listen to any of it. Love puts itself first, and makes its own plans. It maps you out instead. Maybe that's what makes it perfect.”
“In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In Los Angeles, there is so much money and power connected with ostentation that is no longer ludicrous: it commands a kind of respect. For if the mighty behave like this, then quiet good taste means that you can't afford the conspicuous expenditures, and you become a little ashamed of your modesty and propriety.”
“The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.”
“You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.”
“All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!”
“To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.”

Source : William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

You may also like:

Boss Tweed
New York State Senator
Ida B. Wells
Journalist
Ida Tarbell
Author
Jane Addams
Sociologist
Lewis Hine
Photographer
Lincoln Steffens
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Former member of the U.S. Senate
Samuel Gompers
Labor Union Leader
Upton Sinclair
Author