"The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below; circular iron machinery; a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle."

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Source : Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.20, Getty Publications

Alfred Stieglitz

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“Living day in and day out with guilt over sin that has not been properly confessed and forsaken expends a certain amount of emotional energy; it saps your emotional strength and causes you to become emotionally exhausted (i.e., depressed).”
“We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.”
“You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.”
“If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read - if you wait for the time, you will never do it. â€˜Cause there ainâ€™t no time; world donâ€™t want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.”
“Self Realization is finding That which is beyond even superconsciousness itself, beyond the mind-timeless, causeless, spaceless.”
“I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.”
“Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.”

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