"It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you."

-- Lee Friedlander

#Photography Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Shooting Quotes

“There is inevitably a trade-off between staffing and safety, and as a society we must decide where that balance should be struck.”
“Religion is god's population-control tool”

Source : "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2001.
“The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.”
“Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.”
“I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.”
“I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.”
“The way we move within time is a kind of dance. We are always keeping time within one rhythm or another. Music, of course, is exemplary. One reason we love music so much is that it's so complete and the notes harmonize with one another in time to make a beautiful, ideal statement; not like our daily life where the rhythms are more subtle or hard to find or are constantly being interrupted or changed in ways that aren't so easy to handle.”
“You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”

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