"Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose."

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Source : Leonard Freed, Michael Eric Dyson (2013). “This is the Day: The March on Washington”, p.104, Getty Publications

Leonard Freed

#Photography Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.”
“I think all Internet comments should be disengaged. But I kind of live and die by it. It's completely irresistible. It's not like comedy. When I do a podcast or write an episode of TV, I have no feedback for that. That's the only way you know what you're doing is good or bad.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my left arm flings downcanyon, opening my shoulders to the south, and I fall back against the northern wall of the canyon, my mind is surfing on euphoria. As I stare at the wall where not twelve hours ago I etched â€œRIP OCT 75 ARON APR 03,â€ a voice shouts in my head: I AM FREE!”
“A good sweat, with the blood punding through my body, makes me feel alive, revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance.Â I feel good about myself.Â Then I can feel good about others.”
“I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.”

Source : Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. January 10, 2007.
“For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.”
“Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.”

Source : Ned Rorem (2013). “The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961”, p.14, Open Road Media
“Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.”

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