"Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography."

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Source : August Sander (1980). “August Sander: photographs of an epoch, 1904-1959 : man of the twentieth century, Rhineland landscapes, nature studies, architectural and industrial photographs, images of Sardinia : [exhibition]”

#Photography Quotes #Mean Quotes #Fidelity Quotes

“Maybe it has something to do with being a reporter for a long time that I don't look to newspapers and television and so forth for inspiration most of the time.”
“When I was younger, I thought that the key to success was just hard work. But the real foundation is faith. Faith - the idea that 'I can do it' - is the opposite of fear ('What if I fail?'). And faith creates motivation which in turn leads to commitment, hard work, preparation ... and eventually success.”
“A winner never stops trying.”
“There are as many types of non-dualities as there are dualities.”
“It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.”
“I know that [Mike] Tyson talked about wanting to eat his opponent's children, but I don't think he ever had the balls to do it. I'm different - when I kidnapped Bill Lawrence's daughter, I cut off all of her fingers before sending my demands so that I wouldn't have to sit there and wait for him to ignore them. We worked things about about nine hours in, which is good because I ate her thumb as a midnight snack.”
“There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.”
“The natural environment is the great outpatient department where we can go for healing”

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