"We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history."

-- Chris Marker

#Art Quotes #Levels Quotes #Personal History Quotes

“To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.”
“Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.”
“Where there is a will there is a way. Have faith in oneself and productivity will follow. nothing can stop you once you realize what it is you are trying to do. there will always be a way, given the right amount of time one can do anything. Never hesitate to do what it takes.”
“Who am I? this or the other? Am I one person today and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, and before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling? Or is something within me still like a beaten army fleeing in disorder from a victory already achieved? Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine. Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!”
“The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.”
“Instead of running from what you don't want, walk with commitment toward what you desire. Focus on where you are going rather than being obsessed with where you have been.”
“The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.”
“Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.”

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