"Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true."

-- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

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“I donâ€™t really know why Iâ€™m not thinner than I am. I donâ€™t really drink soda, I donâ€™t have a sweet tooth, and we eat healthfully at home. Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought. But I am weirdly healthy, so I donâ€™t beat myself up about it â€” it wouldnâ€™t help, and I donâ€™t want to pass that on to my girls.”
“Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.”

Source : Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, Allan Richard Chavkin, Nancy Feyl Chavkin (1994). “Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.”
“There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.”
“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.”
“Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't work for nothing. I'm entitled to get paid.”
“In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.”

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