"Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda."

-- Martin Parr

#Photography Quotes #Fashion Quotes #Lying Quotes

“The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.”
“Possessing them physically as one would possess a potted plant, a painting, or a Porsche. Owning, as it were, this individual.”
“You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it.”
“Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.”
“The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.”

Source : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.33, Cambridge University Press
“I don't have regrets because they are negative.”
“One nice thing about L.A. is that you can work here in privacy, but that also works against you because you can get forgotten here, too. I think in New York, it's hard to be left alone. It's hard to have privacy whereas here, you can have it.”
“Greatest victory which we desire, is to defeat truth and Lo! Truth is undefeated”

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