"It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit."

-- Jean-Francois Chevrier

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“When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going”
“My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artistâ€™s most profound life experiences.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Norman (1976). “Alfred Stieglitz”
“It often seems easier not to move on; even the muck and mire in which we're stuck seems less fearful and less challenging than the unknown path ahead. Some people use faith as a reason to remain stuck. They often say, "I have faith, so I'm waiting." But faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don't have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move. Complacency actually shows lack of faith. When it's time to move in a new direction in order to progress, the right people will come to us.”
“Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.”
“Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.”
“Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.”
“For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.”
“When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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