"Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it."

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Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press

A. D. Coleman

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“There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.”
“This is a slippery slope. In addition to that at what point are we going to be okay marrying inanimate objects? Can I marry this table or this, you know, clock? Can we marry dogs? This is ridiculous. And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman.”
“I have no problem with whatever the next big look is. Just don't try and tell me that only one look is beautiful.”
“If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.”
“For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.”

Source : Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.9, Random House
“When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.”
“Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.”
“Sex is a conversation carried out by another means.”

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