"Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect seem less honest to me."

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

John Loengard

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Honest Quotes

“My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.”
“God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life”

Source : "Song: 'Two-Headed Boy Part Two'". 1998.
“Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.”
“Consider the willful scorching of the earth, over-fishing, wasteful hunting, excessive and dangerous recycling of resources, and other similar "injustices" against the ways of nature share in the responsibility for this ecological spiraling down.”
“What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse”
“When I encountered "The Lady of Shallot" (to take a "for instance" allusion from the many in the book, this one from the "Etiology" section) it was still considered a "great poem." What does that poem - or rather a particular presentation of that poem (hey, admire this!) - do to a young woman?”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.”
“I've always been driven to buck the system.”

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