"The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability."

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Source : Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”

Allan Sekula

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“These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on Her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most holy Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.”
“If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.”
“My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.”
“Freedom is about what you can unleash.”

Source : "The Fast Pack". Roundtable Interview, www.fastcompany.com. January 31, 1998.
“If peace seems elusive in your life today, commit yourself to God, commit your concerns to Him in prayer, and then rest peacefully as you trust in Him.”
“If you let them kill you, they will”
“You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.”
“Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.”

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