"There is no such thing as the perfect picture. That's the challenge of photography. I was always striving for perfection, even though I knew I could never achieve it. But it kept me reaching for something."

-- Phil Stern

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“Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.”

Source : Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.133, Xist Publishing
“Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.”

Source : Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
“So much pain. So many lives. Their darkness must end.”
“Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.”

Source : Common Misquotations introduction (1934)
“Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence . . . Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.”

Source : Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain
“If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative but to conceive of this Incarnation as something which is still present and which will remain present for all future time. ... What happens in the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist is something for which all religions of mankind have exressed longing, dimly sensed was coming, and as a rule even prefigured- the physical presence of the divine Logos made man, and the presence of his sacrificial death, in the midst of the congregation celebrating the mysteries.”
“From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.”
“Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.”

Source : Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.227, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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