"Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment.""

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Source : John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

John Loengard

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“You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.”
“We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.”
“Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.”
“Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.”
“Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.”
“I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.”

Source : "Michael Meacher MP: humans only have 200-300 years left on earth". Interview with Tom Levitt, www.theecologist.org. July 22, 2010.
“I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.”
“I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.”

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