Experience Quotes

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As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment,… — Margaret Bourke-White
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… — Aaron Siskind
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience… — Susan Sontag
To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for… — Ansel Adams
It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner… — Alfred Stieglitz
...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop… — Robert Adams
For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of… — Ruth Bernhard
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is… — Alexander Hamilton
What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as… — Peter Singer
The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to… — Rene Dubos
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the… — Philip Roth
Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is… — Mahatma Gandhi
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others. — Joseph Collins
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will… — Mahatma Gandhi
The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience. — Michael Broadbent
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray… — Elie Wiesel
Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal… — Frank Schoonmaker
Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way. — Robert A. Heinlein

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