"Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative of the image. And this negative comes off, and the fossil is the positive side. This is the same as the action of photography."

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Source : "Tradition: Hiroshi Sugimoto". ART21 interview, art21.org.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

#Photography Quotes #Negative Quotes #Records Quotes

“Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.”
“So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment.”

Source : James Joseph Sylvester (1877). “Address Delivered by J.J. Sylvester, F.R.S. (corresponding Member of the Institute of France), Professor of Mathematics, at Johns Hopkins University on Commemoration Day, February 22, 1877”
“It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.”
“The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms of large-scale integration that counterbalance the distributed anatomical and functional organization of brain activity to enable the emergence of coherent behaviour and cognition. Although the mechanisms involved in large-scale integration are still largely unknown, we argue that the most plausible candidate is the formation of dynamic links mediated by synchrony over multiple frequency bands.”

Source : "The brainweb: phase synchronization and large-scale integration", Nature Rviews Vol 2, p. 229, 2001.
“If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.”

Source : "When I'm 65", www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.
“Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.”
“Every successful person has faced, attacked, and conquered adversity somewhere along the way.”
“When God calls, it has the intensity of a shout and the authority of a summons. When He calls, He secures His own desired results.”

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