"All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself."

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Source : "Photography Speaks: 66 Photographers on Their Art". Book by Brooks Johnson, www.nytimes.com. 1989.

Helen Levitt

#Reality Quotes #Trying Quotes #Aesthetic Quotes

“The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.”

Source : Meir Kahane (1973). “Meir Kahane--writings (5732-33): Selected Writings by Meir Kahane from the Year 5732-33 (1971-73).”
“The stakes are so high because auditions are make or break. You get the job or you don't. The stakes are about as high as they get, for yourself and your own self-esteem.”
“The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.”
“You can never be perfect. But you can always do a million good things, for yourself and for others. Start and end your day with good things and whatever challenges you face in between only make you stronger.”
“I think I suffer from body dysmorphia - I don't see what other people see.”
“Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment”
“GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways. Now let's make them pay for the cleanup.”
“It's true that non-ionizing radiation lacks the power to have damage. But its damage seems to come from its modulated signal. So every 900 milliseconds, if you have a cellphone in your pocket, it's getting half of that radiation which is getting into you as it seeks the signal from the tower.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com

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