"If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument."

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Source : Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)

Eve Arnold

#Photography Quotes #People Quotes #Cameras Quotes

“The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It's such a simple idea. It's the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.”
“IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.43
“We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.”
“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”

Source : "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.
“Three courses open lie to wealth, to give, enjoy, or lose, Who shrinketh from the former two, perforce the third doth choose.”
“It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!”
“Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance”
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”

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