"I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself."

-- Lewis Baltz

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“I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.”
“I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.”
“The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life”
“If Rip Van Winkle came back, there's only one institution he would recognize: "Oh! That's a school. Kids are still sitting in rows, still listening to the font of wisdom at the front of the classroom."”

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“The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.”
“...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.”
“I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.”
“The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.”

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