"Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough."

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Pauline Kael

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“There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.”

Source : Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.289, Cambridge University Press
“But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer or that, best of all, provokes the viewer to think-to ask a question or simply to gaze in thoughtful wonder. We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make. It is the kind of picture that makes you want to pick up your own camera again and go to work.”
“Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants.”

Source : "Simpson, families battle over courtroom camera". www.cnn.com. August 23, 1996.
“No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”

Source : "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.
“I would have never thought that I would hear myself saying that the president of the United States is afraid of the CIA. But he is. He's afraid of the NSA as well. How else to explain that the National Intelligence director, who lied under oath to his senate overseers on the 12th of March 2013, is still the director of National Intelligence?”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
“None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.”
“The church is the cross that Christ was crucified on.”

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