"Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through the human interest of the situation photographed or by calling our attention to some commonplace but fascinating thing we have never noticed before or it can be achieved by looking at an everyday thing in a new interesting way."

-- Alexey Brodovitch

#Photography Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.”
“I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.”
“People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don`t want to have children.”
“I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.”
“At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries recognized that such "Americanization" could be achieved through literacy. Thus, teaching immigrants to read was not just a benefit in and of itself; literacy would also serve the interests of democracy.”
“If sex isn't a joke, what is it?”

Source : Nella Larsen (2012). “Passing”, p.45, Courier Corporation
“We learned that orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend theyâ€™re not real before you hold them in your arms. But once you do, everything changes.”
“You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.”

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