"... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'"

-- Walker Evans

#Photography Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.”
“A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it. It's embracing a higher reality. When you look a little closer, the way that I define it or explain it, is that the blues is the naked cry of the human heart, apart from God. People are searching for union with God. They're searching to be home. There's something in people that seeks this union with their creator. Why am I here? Where am I going? What's it all about? Who am I? All this kind of stuff.”
“I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.”
“Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?”
“Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.”
“I am the kind of person that if something scares me then I feel like have to do it. That's something I have to conquer. I need to break that fear and go to it.”
“Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?”
“Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.”

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