"I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes me that this is very different to the way it was for me, which was that I wanted to understand photography and the world and myself."

-- Stephen Shore

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“Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.”
“I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.”
“Very few people actually saw Andy's films like Chelsea Girls where he filmed seven hours, ran it on two screens, where each scene was in a different room at the Chelsea Hotel with these people he called 'Superstars" who were basically super-exhibitionists - the guy in one room high on LSD talking about masturbation, Brigid Berlin in another room playing a lesbian and shooting up people with amphetamines right through their jeans, it was all real and they were really doing it (though Brigid is now a proper lady), but you know Andy really did pre-date reality TV.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance beats the barber-black. In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'erspread, And beats the collier and the barber-red: Black, red, and white in various clouds are tost, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.”
“What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.”
“It's okay. You aren't my type. What's your type? Someone who gets into less trouble.”
“Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.”

Source : Nicholas Ling, John Bodenham (1722). “Wits Common-wealth:, Or, A Treasury of Divine, Moral, Historical and Political Admonitions, Similies, and Sentences: For the Use of Schools”, p.53
“Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengthsâ€”the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated warrior. This is a deeply moving account of the last years of a very great man,”

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