"Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards."

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Source : Charles Sheeler (1968). “Charles Sheeler: Essays by Martin Friedman, Bartlett Hayes [and] Charles Millard”

Charles Sheeler

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“The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.”
“A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.”
“Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”
“In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they reach Venezuela. Sandpipers, plovers, and broad-winged hawks have already left for Patagonia and Panama. Bats are headed for caves in Kentucky and Tennessee. Out in the Atlantic, humpback whales pass by on their way to the Caribbean. Even now, Canada geese are honking toward us from Quebec. It is a good day for the beginnings of journeys.Every time I look at you, I think, Now I cannot die.”

Source : Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.7, Da Capo Press
“I think people can at least appreciate the sensibility behind the position I have. It is not a pro-marijuana position. It is a common-sense position.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.”
“I know that. What's your point?”

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