"I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I use photography as a vessel for visual material to flow through, to encourage conversation with the viewer. I try to present a catalyst and invite viewers to tell their own stories."

-- Michael Kenna

#Photography Quotes #Strong Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because theyâ€™re counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but theyâ€™ve never been born again.”
“All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.”

Source : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books
“A widespread taste for ***** means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.”
“We were really sick of silver.”
“One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.”
“As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.”
“My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.”
“I also play a little bit of Tiger Woods once in awhile. Get on the golf course there, and pretend that I'm beating him.”

Source : Interview with Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 17, 2002.

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