"I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you."

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Frans Lanting

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.”
“It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.”
“I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.”
“The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it and the black sky was so vivid, it just made this impression of excitement and wonder.”
“That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.”
“I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.”
“Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
“The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.”

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