"I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination."

-- Ralph Eugene Meatyard

#Imagination Quotes #Realistic Quotes #Photograph Quotes

“Free thought, free speech and a free press.”
“You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.”
“American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.”
“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassmentâ€¦”
“The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.”
“I love love. Growing up, I always thought it was a state, and I'd wait for it to appear. Now I think it's an activity, a skill, something you strive to create. A constant conversation between emotion and imagination and flesh.”
“Prose talks and poetry sings.”
“Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture.”

Source : Theodore Schroeder (1911). “"Obscene" Literature and Constitutional Law: A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press”

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