"A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer."

-- Graciela Iturbide

#Imagination Quotes #Photographer Quotes

“Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that sheâ€™s â€˜damaged goodsâ€™, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom â€˜do you still love me?â€™ you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even.”
“â€¦ Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right nowâ€¦”

Source : Song: Little Wonders
“Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.”
“And â€˜classically not beautifulâ€™ is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.”
“Don't weep, insects -- Lovers, stars themselves, Must part.”

Source : Issa Kobayashi (1991). “The dumpling field: haiku of Issa”, Swallow Press
“The land is oursâ€: that is pretty much the end of the debate. â€œI will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel,”
“Our life is frittered away by detail Simplify, simplify.â€Â Or, as Plato wrote, â€œIn order to seek oneâ€™s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.”
“Never let the worst of you get the best of you.”

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