"When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important."

-- Frank Gohlke

#Important Quotes #Attention Quotes #Photographer Quotes

“Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity”
“If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.”
“I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.”
“But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.”
“The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.”
“I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.”
“The word priority was singular for 500 yearsâ€”what does priorities meanâ€”'many many first things.'”
“Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.”

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