"Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty."

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Source : John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

John Loengard

#Reality Quotes #True Beauty Quotes #Records Quotes

“Humor is also a way of saying something serious.”
“Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.”
“Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.”

Source : Michael Dirda (2007). “Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life”, p.14, Macmillan
“That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.”
“And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.”
“Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.”

Source : Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.30, Beacon Press
“India then being four-sided in plan, the side which looks to the Orient and that to the South, the Great Sea compasseth; that towards the Arctic is divided by the mountain chain of Hmdus from Scythia, inhabited by that tribe of Scythians who are called Sakai; and on the fourth side, turned towards the West, the Indus marks the boundary, the biggest or nearly so of all rivers after the Nile.”
“The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.”

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