"Something about photography is tied to a very specific relationship with the material world. It doesn't have to be, but the way I practice it, it is. So there's an act of observation, but it's not an act of objective recording. It's about framing something and seeing it and understanding that it's relational."

-- Zoe Leonard

#Photography Quotes #Practice Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.”
“I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't like to be on a set and wait three hours, just to make some lighting adjustments. I like to shoot. That's what I want to do. I'd rather shoot something dumb than wait.”

Source : "Quentin Dupieux Talks WRONG COPS, Fast-Paced Shoots, and His Secret Project with Marilyn Manson". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 25, 2013.
“Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.”
“You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.”
“In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.”

Source : Tailor of Gloucester (1903) p. 9
“A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.”
“But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.”

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