"One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins."

-- Carl Mydans

#Art Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Hands Quotes

“It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.”

Source : John Hill Burton (1862). “The Book-hunter, Etc”, p.141, Edinburgh : S. Blackwood
“If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading.”

Source : Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com
“The only thing He forgets is our sins.”
“I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.”
“The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every honest citizen an equal right to enjoy his religion and an equal title to all civil emoluments, without obliging him to tell his religion. Every interference of the civil power in regulating opinion, is an impious attempt to take the business of the Deity out of his own hands; and every preference given to any religious denomination, is so far slavery and bigotry.”
“It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.”
“An hour of anxiety cannot change my circumstances, but a minute of prayer can alter everything.”
“A certain blue enters your soul”

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