"The beautiful is always bizarre."

-- Charles Baudelaire

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“In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fly at the point of intersection.”
“I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.”
“You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.”

Source : 1898 Telegram to the artist Frederic Remington at the beginning of the Spanish - American War in Cuba, Mar. This may be apocryphal, but it inspired a famous line of dialogue in Orson Welles's film Citizen Kane.
“Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.”

Source : John Herman Randall (1911). “A New Philosophy of Life”
“I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.”
“I'm proud of the fact that Marine Le Pen in France insults me and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands calls me his opponent. The way I see it is, if these people weren't attacking me, I would be doing something wrong.”
“There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you're going to have - that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home.”
“Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.”

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