"Communication has always been at the service of power. Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel for the Pope. Is it not an advertisement for the Church? I try to make the best pictures I can and sometimes they are used in advertising campaigns."

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Oliviero Toscani

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“We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.”
“I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.”
“Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the sport I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.”
“I want to do whatever I can to survive.”
“I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.”
“Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.”
“Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.”
“Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now? â€””

Source : Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.127, David R. Godine Publisher

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