"The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler."

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Source : Walker Evans, Jeff Rosenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Walker Evans : polaroids”, Scalo Verlag Ac

Walker Evans

#Photography Quotes #Character Quotes #Personality Quotes

“I like to think of my son as having an extra puzzle piece rather than missing one.”
“National honor is national property of the highest value.”

Source : James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”
“The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy.”
“All other men, being born of woman, have a navel, by reason of the umbilical vessels inserted into it, which from the placenta carry nourishment to children in the womb of their mothers; but it could not be so with our first parents. It cannot be believed that God gave them navels which would have been altogether useless.”
“May the optimism of tomorrow be your foundation for today.”
“I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.”
“I bury my mind in my book, the Bible. Every morning it's the first thing that I do. I've been doing it for years and years. So I want to come back here [to Israel] to see the places that I read about every day. It's very important to my faith to feed [my] spirit in Israel.”
“Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.”

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