"It cannot be too plainly stated that it is quite unimportant whether photography produces 'art' or not. Its own basic laws, not the opinions of art critics, will provide the only valid measure of its future worth."

-- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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“Things that you cannot face in yourself you will hate when you see them in someone else.”
“When people are not in a prison cell they believe they are free and happy. That's not true. Because in Istanbul, the modern person wakes up at 5 o'clock or 6 o'clock in the morning, gets on the bus for two hours to get to work, works at least ten hours, sometimes twelve or fourteen, then comes back home, just to make some money to pay for rent and food. That's not a human being's life. That's the life of a worm in the earth. That's the life of an insect.”
“For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.”

Source : Samuel Lover (1858). “The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by S. Lover”, p.108
“It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.”

Source : Wendell Phillips (1969). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series”, Ayer Company Pub
“I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.”
“If you're wearing something I like, I will come over and ask where you got it from. I'm not shy!”

Source : "Five fashion minutes with... Joanne Froggatt". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 19, 2009.
“I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.”
“On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.”

Source : Anthony Powell (2010). “A Question of Upbringing: Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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