"I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first."

-- Robert Polidori

#Photography Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sight Quotes

“The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.”
“It's been a long time coming. But I know a change is gonna come”

Source : Song: A Change is Gonna Come
“My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.”
“I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.”
“I know the woman has no soul, I know The woman has no possibilities Of soul or mind or heart, but merely is The masterpiece of flesh: well, be it so. It is her flesh that I adore; I go Thirsting afresh to drain her empty kiss. I know she cannot love: it is not this My vanquished heart implores in overthrow. Tyrannously I crave, I crave alone, Her splendid body, Earth's most eloquent Music, divinest human harmony; Her body now a silent instrument, That 'neath my touch shall wake and make for me The strains I have but dreamed of, never known.”

Source : Arthur Symons (1919). “Poems”
“I think Trent Baretta looks like Ashton Kutcher.”
“Follow the lead of your symptoms, for thereâ€™s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.”
“Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.”

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