"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself."

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Source : Nancy Tousley, Berenice Abbott, Glenbow Museum, Edmonton Art Gallery, Southern Alberta Art Gallery (1982). “The Berenice Abbott portfolios”, Glenbow

Berenice Abbott

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“The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.”
“I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.”
“If Europe thinks Jews will return to the days where we were forced to mark our products - you can forget it. De-legitimization of parts of Israel by Europe is the new anti-Semitism. The old anti-Semitism led to the destruction of our people in gas chambers. We will not allow the new anti-Semitism to hurt us,”
“In fact, presidents and vice presidents are automatically audited by the IRS, which hasn't stopped other chief executives from making them public.”
“Iâ€™ve always tried to be independent. Itâ€™s just my personality. Iâ€™ve always been the type to motivate the camp. Iâ€™ve always wanted to be the fuel for somethingâ€”for music, the fuel for my family, the fuel for my best friend. Helping someone with what Iâ€™m doing.”
“I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.”
“When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.”
“The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.”

Source : "Schumacher keeps his foot down". Interview With Maurice Hamilton, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2002.

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