"I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image."

-- Robert Heinecken

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“The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.”
“The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.”
“Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.”
“I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.”
“An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.”
“You didn't win the game of life by losing the least. That would be one of those-what were they called again?-Pyrrhic victories. Real winning was having the most to lose, even if it meant you might lose it all. Even though it meant you would lose it all, sooner or later.”

Source : Tommy Wallach (2015). “We All Looked Up”, p.335, Simon and Schuster
“My work was entirely nonfiction.”
“What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just as a silly example: How would the comment section on YouTube change if, to use it, you had to have the schooling necessary to have a basic understanding of how computers and the internet work? More seriously, would anyone smart enough to know how to design and build a tank, or a laser guided anti-aircraft missile, or a computer and video editing software be stupid enough to join ISIS? In fact, if such knowledge was requiredâ€”would it even be possible for there to be standing armies?”

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