"Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still lifes, one day we know that we will be brought to account: life is passing before our eyes without our ever having seen a thing."

-- Brassai

#Photography Quotes #Eye Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.”
“I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton of stuff going on in my life that I don't write about. If I need to write that stuff down, I write about myself in my diary.”
“Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is absolute and may be broken only at your peril.”
“Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1944). “Literature in New England: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865. New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915”, New York Garden City [1944]
“In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.”
“I like birthdays because we celebrate life with cakes. It's so cool. Sometimes when I see a baby, I'm like that much more cake in the world. But then when someone dies, I'm like the cake streak is over...”
“No one has ever become poor from giving.”
“You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance.”

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