"The snapshooterâ€™s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isnâ€™t straight. It isnâ€™t done well. It isnâ€™t composed. It isnâ€™t thought out. And out of this imbalance, and out of this not knowing, and out of this real innocence toward the medium comes an enormous vitality and expression of life."

-- Lisette Model

#Real Quotes #Expression Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.”
“Parsi theater was known for melodrama.”
“Ham will continue to be servant of servants, as the Lord decreed, until the curse is removed. will the present struggle free the slave? No; but they are now wasting away the black race by thousands.... Treat the slaves kindly and let them live, for Ham must be the servant of servants until the curse is removed. Can you destroy the decrees of the Almighty? You cannot. Yet our Christian brethren think that they are going to overthrow the sentence of the Almighty upon the seed of Ham. They cannot do that, though they may kill them by thousands and tens of thousands.”
“Once you really get into a song, other than just listening to it, it forces you to go 'oh, they did this. I never would have thought of doing that,' when you deconstruct it. It's something you really can't do sometimes when you're just listening to a song. You have to really get into it.”
“People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.”
“I donâ€™t shake at the site of alcohol anymore. I donâ€™t feel the need for it. If anything Iâ€™ll get stoned. I always told myself if it got to the point that it was affecting my songwriting and music that Iâ€™d stop. And it did get to the point.”
“If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.”

Source : Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company
“I'm proud to be Parisian, proud to be a BANLIEUSARD. Which means a man from the suburbs, from the streets, from the outskirt.”

Source : Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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