Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the… — Jacob August Riis Copy Share Image
I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck… — Jacob August Riis Copy Share Image
Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It… — Jacob August Riis Copy Share Image
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet… — Jacob August Riis Copy Share Image
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. — Jacob August Riis Copy Share Image
Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad. — Jacob August Riis Copy Share Image
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