"Photography was increasingly being seen as something outside the art world. As a sort of illustration. They just fired the director of photography at the Sunday Times Magazine - that's where everyone went with their photo essays in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. It was the place to get published. It is an issue. And I feel it. There's no budget. The budget-holders are very often people who've been to the professional colleges where art is not taught. So art as a part of education is something that's missing - since Thatcher's day, anyway."

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Stuart Franklin

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“I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.”

Source : "Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken Talk SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS, What Inspired Their Performances, Memorable Moments, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 11, 2012.
“Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going to get his way.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
“When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.”
“I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.”
“The people I recommend the iPhone 4S for are the ones who are already in the Mac world, because itâ€™s so compatible, and people who are just scared of computers altogether and donâ€™t want to use them. The iPhone is the least frightening thing. For that kind of person who is scared of complexity, well, hereâ€™s a phone that is simple to use and does what you need it to do,”
“I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”

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