"One must distance oneself from the idea of strict realism. It seems to me that real nature doesn't exist anymore, this idea of "the wild." This is why I love parks, and why I chose to use them in my work - they are beyond nature. I see nature as a resource."

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Sergio Chejfec

#Real Quotes #Distance Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.”
“A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.”
“Our churches are filled with Christians who are idling in intellectual neutral. As Christians, their minds are going to waste. One result of this is an immature, superficial faith. People who simply ride the roller coaster of emotional experience are cheating themselves out of a deeper and richer Christian faith by neglecting the intellectual side of that faith.”
“History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.”
“All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen”
“If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?”
“I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.”
“A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don't care about.”

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