"The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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“I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss willingly and that our fall is cushioned by faith--faith that at the bottom we will be caught and taught and turned toward the light. I pray that we don't waste precious energy feeling ashamed of our mistakes, or embarrassed by our flaws. After years of teaching, I know only a few things for sure. One of them is this: We are chunks of dense matter that need to be cracked open. Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.”
“I feel good. I think everything went good.”

Source : Hal Sutton during The Ryder Cup Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. September 18, 2004.
“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”
“You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them upâ€”so we keep reacing for them”
“I just think that's more exciting. When people used to cut records live, there were mistakes all the time that stayed in. It was part of the charm. You're kind of missing something if everything is all doctored-up and clinical. So when we hear a mistake that sounds interesting, we make a point to keep it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.”
“My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.”
“We are only as blind as we want to be.”

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