"It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer"

-- Raymond Depardon

#Loneliness Quotes #Photographer Quotes

“They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.”

Source : Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.
“I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty. Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.... I think beauty is an expression of love.”
“A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.”
“You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.”
“Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.”
“In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West. Pornography is more restricted, but it's not hard to make a crazy, extremely violent film.”
“Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him”
“Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.”

Source : Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”

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