"I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are."

-- Duane Michals

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.”

Source : "Country of My Skull" by Antjie Krog, Random House, (p. 270), 1998.
“Any unique image that you desire probably already exists on the internet or in some database... the problem today is no longer how to create the right image, but how to find an already existing one.”

Source : Lev Manovich (2001). “The Language of New Media”, p.401, MIT Press
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.”
“I enjoy being a woman. It's what I learned from years of experience in modeling. You learn how to seduce; how to be sensual, how to play. It's very important for a woman, I think. But it's not by beauty that you seduce. It's a meeting - it depends on the image the other reflects back to you, how they see you and make you feel.”
“Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.”
“I can live with losing, I can't live without taking my chance.”
“The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace.”
“The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.”

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