"The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it."

-- John Szarkowski

#Photography Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Lines Quotes

“The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.”
“Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.”
“I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.'”

Source : Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868”, p.524, University of Pittsburgh Pre
“Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.”
“You are equally important to me, and I love you all.”
“If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.”
“But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, â€œYou are noble enough,â€ and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.”
“I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside.”

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