"My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artistâ€™s most profound life experiences."

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Source : Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Norman (1976). “Alfred Stieglitz”

Alfred Stieglitz

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“There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.”
“The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.”

Source : Jean Genet (1960). “The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes”
“It is difficult to fly without wings.”
“All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal.”
“I made cranberry sauce, and when it was done put it into a dark blue bowl for the beautiful contrast. I was thinking, doing this, about the old ways of gratitude: Indians thanking the deer they'd slain, grace before supper, kneeling before bed. I was thinking that gratitude is too much absent in our lives now, and we need it back, even if it only takes the form of acknowledging the blue of a bowl against the red of cranberries.”

Source : Elizabeth Berg (2000). “Open House: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated
“When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.”
“There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.”
“Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.”

Source : Reinhold Messner, Horst Höfler, Hermann Buhl (2000). “Hermann Buhl: climbing without compromise”, The Mountaineers Books

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