"Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art."

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Source : Andreas Feininger (1982). “Total photography”, Not Avail

Andreas Feininger

#Art Quotes #Successful Quotes #Technique Quotes

“It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head...”
“As well as might we say that a ship is built, loaded and manned for the sake of any particular pilot, instead of acknowledging that the pilot is made for the sake of the ship, her lading, and her crew, who are always the owners in the political vessel; as to say that kingdoms were instituted for kings, not kings for kingdoms.”
“Paris is the café of Europe.”
“Whatever I feel, I say frankly.”
“The FA Cup means a lot. There is a real passion here for the competition which you don't get elsewhere. It's a love affair. It's part and parcel of living up here. People might think I'm daft, but I'm not wrong; I'd rather win the Cup than the League.”
“Now I love the act of creating a new image. When everything comes together, it feels like ecstasy. It's like a climax.”
“Sometimes itâ€™s more a matter of collaboration which matters in a collection.”
“I think we - "we," meaning the media - have generally caused Americans to consume news in smaller, less contextualized bites. I think we have sugar-coated the news. I think we have provided news that is consumable, at the expense of news that is more important. I think we have created a world in which extreme views push out moderate views.”

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