"The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the readerâ€™s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary."

-- Walker Evans

#Photography Quotes #Independent Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.”
“The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.”
“Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.”
“You know in politics you are dealing in the realm of choices. You don't always have clear-cut decision between a thoroughly principled position and a thoroughly unprincipled one. You're making snap decisions with paucity of information, generally trying to do the best that you can, but you will make errors, and sometimes it's a decision between a bad and a worse alternative. It has to be done, because we need to order our society, and of politics it can literally be said: Bad job, but someone's got to do it.”
“As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.”
“The Very Hungry Caterpillarâ€ story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future”
“It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.”
“I know where I'm putting my money”

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