"I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable."

-- Ryan McGinley

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“I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“When we won the league at Tottenham, they came back 2-2 in the last-minute of the game, and they're celebrating - because they're happy to draw against us, obviously. And I remember saying to Mauricio Tarricco, do you realise we only need a point to be Champions? And they all [were really shocked]. So I said 'Yes. Now we're going to celebrate on your pitch. Bye bye!'”
“The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.”
“My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.”
“All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.”
“My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble.”

Source : Yousuf Karsh (1969). “Yousuf Karsh”
“A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.”
“It must be remembered that even though the ego is the individual's inaccurate concept of him- or herself, it seems to be what the person is.”

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