"Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway."

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Source : "At Home With Larry Sultan" by Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2014.

Larry Sultan

#Believe Quotes #Knowing Better Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris
“We will never know how great God's love is until we first see how great our sin is.”
“The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.”

Source : "The Black Room". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 108, 1971.
“What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'”
“[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.”
“There are no races. Only lotteries.”
“What went wrong? Nothing and everything.”
“Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.”

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