"Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time."

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Source : "Marcel Duchamp’s Influence". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

#Photography Quotes #Memories Quotes #Machines Quotes

“Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.”

Source : "Leisure, the Basis of Culture" by Josef Pieper, translated by Gerald Malsbary, South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press, (pp. 106-107), 1998.
“Maybe I shouldnâ€™t mouth off to the elemental I kinda hoped was my future mother-in-law.”
“It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.”
“I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.”
“Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.”
“Man is an imitative creature.”
“Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.”

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