"I never had any ambition to do anything commercial, anything journalistic. I wanted to be an artist, and I wanted to be an artist whose work was done in the medium of photography. It may be debatable to this day whether I ever succeeded in achieving that ambition, but the point is, I never had any uncertainty about that."

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Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu

Lewis Baltz

#Photography Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Artist Quotes

“I don't know if it [Mary and Jane] is a do-over or wanting someone to have made certain entertainment for us that did not exist when we were that age, but we keep going back and doing it again. I have a 12-year-old girl now and I want to make things that will speak to her. Things that will that have lessons for her to take away.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.”

Source : Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group
“When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist - he said that media had a responsibility, that all sectors of society had a responsibility to try and progress things and move things forward. And that fascinated me, because I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life.”

Source : "On September 21, call a global truce" by Jeremy Gilley, www.cnn.com. January 15, 2012.
“When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.”

Source : "Quotes of the day: Cameron Sinclair", www.cnn.com. July 11, 2008.
“You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.”
“Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate) the undertakings enter unto ("les engagements contractÃ©s", Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly ("Ã©ventuellement", Fr.) in another.”
“Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?”
“Coincidences mean you're on the right path.”

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