Quotes
Authors
Alfredo Jaar

"For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances a good photograph is a picture that comes as close as possible to reality. But the camera never manages to record what your eyes see, or what you feel at the moment. The camera always creates a new reality."

Source : Alfredo Jaar, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona, Spain), Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea (San Sebastián, Spain) (1998). “Let there be light: the Rwanda Project 1994-1998”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

Alfredo Jaar

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“To prosper soundly in business, you must satisfy not only your customers, but you must lay yourself out to satisfy also the men who make your product and the men who sell it.”
“A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but submissive individuals, half of its health and all of its vigor have disappeared.”
“The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. â€”Elana's father”

Source : Sylvia Louise Engdahl (2003). “Enchantress from the Stars”, Puffin
“In Kurdistan, theres a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.”
“The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It is a crisis of powerlessness in which our sole recourse is to call on the help and inward power of the Holy Spirit.”
“It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.”
“If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.”
“Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.19

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