"I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both."

-- Garry Winogrand

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“The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.”
“Only you know your circumstances, your energy level, the needs of your children, and the emotional demands of your other obligations. Be wise during intensive seasons of your life. Cherish your agency, and donâ€™t give it away casually. Donâ€™t compare yourself to others â€” nearly always this will make you despondent. Donâ€™t accept somebody elseâ€™s interpretation of how you should be spending your time. Make the best decision you can and then evaluate it to see how it works.”

Source : Chieko N. Okazaki (1993). “Lighten Up!”, Deseret Book Company
“The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.”
“Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.74
“I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.”
“Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.”
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.”
“Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.”

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