"Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities."

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Source : Albert Renger-Patzsch, Donald Burton Kuspit, J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). “Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object”, Getty Publications

Albert Renger-Patzsch

#Photography Quotes #Art Quotes #Trying Quotes

“It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.”
“I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.”
“Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.”
“To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence”
“You can't go wrong with love.”

Source : "Ne-Yo, Baby Bash join 'Idol' dropout Mario Vazquez on debut" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. March 21, 2006.
“It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.”
“He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
“We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.”

Source : "Sonny Bono Killed In Skiing Accident", www.cnn.com. January 6, 1998.

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