"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."

-- Ansel Adams

#Negative Quotes #Way Quotes #Subtle Quotes

“The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky.”
“You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The majority of Western culture came out of Europe, which is not comparable to America. It came out of nation states based on geographical and ethnic foundations. America is based on principles, a very different kind of country.”
“The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.”
“I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.”

Source : Marsden Hartley, Alfred Stieglitz, James Timothy Voorhies (2002). “My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915”, p.58, Univ of South Carolina Press
“In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove, I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge. And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.”

Source : Robert Underwood Johnson (1908). “Poems”
“What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.”
“We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you're going to have a closed practice and eight guys don't show up.”

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