"Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for inspiration and not for imitation. These works should be something to be built upon, not to be repeated."

-- Alexey Brodovitch

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“We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.”
“I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.”

Source : John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.32, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Women critics are amazons in climax.”
“Retailers are treating everyone the same way who walks in their stores and this doesn't make sense in the world we live in where all customers are not equal.”
“In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic philosophy. It is the same case with the appeals for humanism, justice, equality, freedom, human rights, and so forth, which are all of religious origin. Certainly, everybody has the right to live as he thinks best, including the right not to be consistent with his own pattern. Still, to understand the world correctly, it is important to know the true origin of meaning and of the ideas ruling the world.”
“History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.”
“Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.”
“I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.”

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