"If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one can work with for the future, rather than making nostalgic images to record something that will later become lost."

-- Thomas Struth

#Ideas Quotes #Trying Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.”

Source : FaceBook post by Paul David Tripp from Feb 21, 2014
“One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.”
“If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.”
“Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.”
“Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned”
“I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.”
“Writing is the beast unto itself.”
“If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our women. For if a soldier is a wedge, a women is a needle; being, so to speak, all point, at least at the two extremities. Add to this the power of making herself practically invisible at will, and you will perceive that a female, in Flatland, is a creature by no means to be trifled with.”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott (2017). “Flatland”, p.17, BookRix

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