"To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered."

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Source : Virginia Heckert, Judy Fiskin, John Divola (2011). “Some Aesthetic Decisions: The Photographs of Judy Fiskin”, p.16, Getty Publications

John Divola

#Numbers Quotes #Choices Quotes #Redemption Quotes

“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.”
“I'd like to restrain from cruelity and not be thanked." ~ Katsa”
“If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights.”
“Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.”
“What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.”
“You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.”
“Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well”

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