"The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together."

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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

Aaron Siskind

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“Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.”
“If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.”
“Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed.”
“The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.”
“I think in everything we did, there's a sense of tension and a sense of things pulling in a different way. It's interesting calling it "beat music". That's quite true, the rhythm is up to the fore, it's got a slap bass, and it's got "funk" in the title. But I think there's always a level of irony when we did those kind of things.”
“I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I'm for anything life-affirmative. I'm for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who's different.”
“The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon his thinking and with which it is not possible to be at variance.”

Source : Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.41, University of Chicago Press
“As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.”

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