"Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I."

-- Lucy R. Lippard

#Beautiful Quotes #Reading Quotes #Skills Quotes

“We're in this together, right?" he whispers. "You and me? You want to be here, yeah?" There's guilt in his questions. "Yes," I reply. "I chose this." Day pulls me close enough for our noses to touch. "I love you.”
“I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.”
“If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.”
“The intention of each lesson is getting you to recognize what you're doing, kinesthetically. Once you're conscious of it, you then can choose whether to continue doing the same thing or not.”
“Letâ€™s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.”
“Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.”
“My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.”
“Not all knowledge comes from college.”

Source : "The Lead" with Jake Tapper, edition.cnn.com. April 30, 2014.

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