"Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual."

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Source : Nickolas Muray (1978). “Muray's celebrity portraits of the twenties and thirties: 135 photographs”, Dover Pubns

Nickolas Muray

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“Life isn't that sweet. That's why everyone wants sweet things.”
“I tell em everybody else is my opposite. I put em on the game give em five percent.”
“I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.”

Source : "My LA: Chris Weitz On Hidden Neighborhoods, Food Trucks & Malibu". Interview with Lucy Blodgett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2011.
“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?”
“In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defence, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security.”
“Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.”
“I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.”
“The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart lawyers. They may say a brilliant lawyer. They'll talk about a creative artist. Smart is saved for scientists. It just is. It's not even really applied to medical doctors. It applies to scientists in the lab figuring out what hadn't been figured out before.”

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