"I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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“The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.”
“My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of taking. At such times, I rely on intuitive, perceptual responses to guide me, using reason only after the final print is made to accept or reject the results of my work.”

Source : Wynn Bullock, Raphael Shevelev (1993). “The enchanted landscape: photographs 1940-1975”, Aperture
“By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.”
“Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.”
“Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent to land. In order to earn profits in free markets, entrepreneurs must identify and satisfy human wants and do so in a way that economizes on society's scarce resources.”
“I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.”

Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”
“I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.”
“I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud.”

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