"The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing."

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Source : Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1982). “Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti”

Duane Michals

#Believe Quotes #Eye Quotes #Focus Quotes

“The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.”
“Everyoneâ€™s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.”
“What you need is an idea.”
“What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.”
“I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up in men's bathrooms. I hate men looking at me and thinking what they think. And I know what they think. They write and tell me.”

Source : "Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman Costume Is Still Badass" by Dana Oliver, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2013.
“Dad says that everyone invented baklava.â€ It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes. â€œYour father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.”
“I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.”
“There are as many loves as there are hearts.”

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