"Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old manâ€™s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a buildingâ€”and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. Itâ€™s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing."

-- Duane Michals

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“Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.”
“This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The eternal conflict between love and malice is the eternal contest between life and death. And this contest is what the complex vision reveals, as it moves from darkness to darkness.”

Source : John Cowper Powys (1920). “The Complex Vision”
“I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.”
“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”
“Talking about football on TV is something I can do with my eyes closed.”
“As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born â€“ and particularly bad luck it is.”

Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.7, Oxford University Press
“Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.”
“BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.”

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