"Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell."

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Source : "The Memory Keeper's Daughter". Book by Kim Edwards, June 28, 2005.

Kim Edwards

#Photography Quotes #Father Quotes #Secret Quotes

“The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.”
“[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.”
“If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.”
“Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way., I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.”
“Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.”
“If you look at television shows, which of course are fictional so you don't expect them to be real, but they're constantly showing career women who are also successful mothers and also look gorgeous. And we fall into believing that these fictional lives are somehow accurate depictions of what our real lives should be about.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and wandering and searching - where am I? how'd I get in this mess? what's the point? - right through to the final draft, and sometimes even beyond that - baffled and defeated still, confused as to purpose long after the thing's in print. I never really have a guiding purpose or a point, not at the outset, anyway. It's like life: It's all discovered en route.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.
“We say no to a lot of things so we can invest an incredible amount of care on what we do.”

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