"Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs."

-- Alfred Stieglitz

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“Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know and have learned is that anything worth doing is not easy and that we can do anything that is not easy if we believe.”
“Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if you don't read and write, and the other musician you're playing with are trying to express something who doesn't read and write, than it's a question of "I wrote" so that you must learn from listening and from understanding where that's coming from.”
“Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.”

Source : Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”
“No sex is wrong, if there's love in it.”
“We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.”
“Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.”

Source : Graham Harvey (2005). “Animism”, p.21, Columbia University Press
“To hell with exciting. I'd rather be drab as hell and win.”
“I got through college realizing business was repugnant.”

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