"When I photograph, I am always relating things to one another. Photography shows the connection between things, how they relate."

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Source : Leonard Freed, Michael Eric Dyson (2013). “This is the Day: The March on Washington”, p.104, Getty Publications

Leonard Freed

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“In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.”
“The Son is 'Life' (Jn. 14:6) because He is 'Light', constituting and giving reality to every thinking being. 'For in Him we live, move and exist' (Acts 17:28) and there is a two-fold sense in which He breathes into us (cf. Gen. 2:7; Jn. 20:22); we are filled, all of us, with His breath, and those who are capable of it, all those who open their mind's mouth wide enough, with His Holy Spirit.”
“My family and my friends-they keep me grounded. Especially my mom, because she would kick my ***** if I was to change.”
“Wait for the last possible moment to make a decision.”
“I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are terrible at teaching people how to pray. It may be that we need to learn from the ground up as religious people, whether Christian or not, how to pray.”
“There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.”
“The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.”

Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 6 (10 December 1774)
“I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.”

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