"Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene - simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus."

Source : Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

Stephen Shore

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“I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought the government to make right. Where so many cunning sons and daughters, our foremothers and forefathers came singing through slaughter, came through hell and high water so that we could stand here, and behold breathlessly the sight; how a raging river of tears cut a grand canyon of light. Why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists, out of respect for those that fought for this?”
“I love traffic. It's fantastic. New York traffic is so relaxing”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.”

Source : "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.
“How does the phrase radical Islamic terrorism link all the believers of a faith to terrorism? If I said radical Christian terrorism, does that mean I as a Catholic are a terrorist?”
“I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.”
“Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.”

Source : Georgia Elma Harkness (1948). “Prayer and the common life”
“It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.”
“I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.”

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