"I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter."

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Source : Gordon Parks (1975). “Moments without proper names”, Studio

Gordon Parks

#Eye Quotes #Heart Quotes #Matter Quotes

“If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.”
“The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture.”
“When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!”
“Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we had some substance and were not a one hit wonder. They got 100% behind us.”
“Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed.”

Source : "Light Waves and Their Uses". Book by Albert A. Michelson. Published by The University of Chicago Press, pp. 23-25, 1903.
“Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.”
“I did my own thinking ... I have never given it out to be done by others as one gives out washing.”
“A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.”

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