"A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar."

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Source : Freeman Patterson (1990). “Photography and the art of seeing”

Freeman Patterson

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“I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as anybody. Just say I'm one of the best broken field runners that ever lived. For 35 years I was a cult hero, an underground funny.”
“People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.”
“If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality.”
“Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,â€™ said Frodo, and he lay back in Samâ€™s gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand. Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness...”
“People generally despise where they flatter.”
“We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation.”
“The Finn is the most watery person in Europe... Here people take baths that last three or four hours and steep their bodies in water right down to their most secret selves.”
“The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.”

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