"If youâ€™re told what to look for, you canâ€™t see anything else."

-- Edward Tufte

“When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.”
“Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.”

Source : Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Douglas Parmée (2008). “Les Liaisons Dangereuses Owc:Pb”, p.219, Oxford University Press
“I'm not really caught up in the whole commercial thing of Christmas. I'm probably more of a pagan than a Christian, but it's hard not to get caught up in it.”
“Itâ€™s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.”
“It got more exciting with each war. I mean the planes were going faster than hell when I was flying a Mustang, but by the time I got to Nam, it scared the piss out of a lot of guys just to fly the damn jets at full speed. Let alone do it in combat.”
“You must do what you want.”
“There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.”
“You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.”

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