"So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way."

-- Gordon Parks

#Fashion Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.”

Source : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
“I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.”
“Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.”
“To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?”
“So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.”
“My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there.”
“Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.”
“I get up every day, do the best that I can do, and go home and have a good time.”

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