"The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to look at the thing, you're supposed to look through it. It's a window."

-- John Szarkowski

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“When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.”
“I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.”
“There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.”
“I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical.”
“If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.”
“If the enemies of the SA are hoping that the SA will not return from leave, we are ready to let them enjoy the hope for a short time.”

Source : Ernst Rohm's SA summer furlough decree, "Völkischer Beobachter", June 10, 1934.
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
“Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.”

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