"We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers showed Tokyo city as a ghastly and alien city when it was really going through this period of mega-capitalist growth. It's a very, very, very powerful force, the photograph. People ask me why it has such an ability to captivate us. And I just don't know."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Stuart Franklin

#Photography Quotes #Powerful Quotes #People Quotes

“A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.”
“I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.”
“Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion."”
“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.”

Source : "Flowers For Algernon". Book by Daniel Keyes, 2012.
“I don't like the word nuclear exchange, it's like an exchange of wheat and so on. It's a horrible term and I always cross it out when I see it somewhere.”

Source : "Ideology of the Reagan Administration". WGBH Educational Foundation Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 24, 1987.
“Never complain. Never explain.”
“I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.”
“Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.”

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