"It's my obligation to take out all the 'wrong' pictures."

-- Jay Maisel

#Photographer Quotes #Obligation Quotes

“Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.”
“The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings... Much use is made of it in the advanced degrees, and entire Rites have been constructed on its principles.”
“You must stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds”
“The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.35, tredition
“It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.”
“It's time to start recognizing that not all escapist entertainment is created equal. And that some of it isn't even entertainment. Miss March is, to use the vernacular of the escapist moviegoer, the biggest pile of crap I've seen in ages.”

Source : "Miss March" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. March 13, 2009.
“This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.”
“It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.”

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