"Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography."

-- El Lissitzky

#Photography Quotes #Art Quotes #Mirrors Quotes

“The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.”
“Why is youth so short and age so long?”

Source : Ouida (1896). “Pipistrello: And Other Stories”
“Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly.”

Source : "Q&A With Jim Chanos Part I: 'Greece Is A Prelude'". Interview with Vince Veneziani, www.businessinsider.com. April 13, 2010.
“My mother was cancer. She slowly destroyed everything around her. She produced two killers; me and my brother Joe.”
“A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.”
“It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.”

Source : Anna Katharine Green (2003). “That Affair Next Door and Lost Man’s Lane”, p.18, Duke University Press
“Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.”

Source : "How to turn Dickens into a serial thriller" by Andrew Davies, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2008.
“Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.”

Source : W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1312, eBookIt.com

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