"Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years... You only have to know about twenty-five or thirty names and that's it. All you need. In painting there are more than 1,000."

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Source : Joan Simon, William Wegman (2006). “William Wegman: Funney/strange”, p.210, Yale University Press

William Wegman

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“Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues”

Source : "Why do we play down the horror of climate change?" by Jonathon Porritt, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
“It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.”
“Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.”
“The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform.”
“The business of books is the business of life.”
“Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story never would have been written. Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices. The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.”

Source : Ida M. Tarbell (2009). “The History of the Standard Oil Company”, p.287, Cosimo, Inc.
“I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.”
“Google's screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple's does. But it's not a complete list, and people aren't aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.”

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