"...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?"

--

Source : Abelardo Morell (1995). “A camera in a room: photographs”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

Abelardo Morell

#Photography Quotes #Why Not Quotes #Strange Quotes

“The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice.”
“Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.”

Source : David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.286, Penguin
“When ever the light of civilization faces upon you with a blighting power...go to the wilderness...Dull business routine, the fierce passions of the marketplace, the perils of envious cities became but a memory...The wilderness will take hold of you. It will give you good red blood; it will turn you from a weakling into a man...You will soon behold all with a peaceful soul.”
“We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.”
“It is on account neither of God's weakness nor ignorance that evil comes into the world, but rather it is due to the order of his wisdom and the greatness of his goodness that diverse grades of goodness occur in things, many of which would be lacking if no evil were permitted. Indeed, the good of patience would not exist without the evil of persecution; nor the good of preservation of life in a lion if not for the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.”
“I do want to go out on top, as a winner”
“The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.”
“The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.”

Source : "A Minute With: Filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas on being 'undocumented'". Interview with Eric Kelsey, www.reuters.com. June 25, 2014.

You may also like:

Adam Fuss
Photographer
Andre Kertesz
Photographer
Edward Weston
Photographer
Henry Fox Talbot
Inventor
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Photographer
J. Paul Getty
Industrialist
Ruth Bernhard
Photographer
Walker Evans
Photographer
William Eggleston
Photographer