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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the…
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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering…
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
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Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The…
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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make…
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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera…
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Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in…
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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
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The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a…
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Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that…
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There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my…
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Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
— William S. Burroughs
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence…
— Galileo Galilei
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International football is the continuation of war by other means.
— George Orwell
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Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
— Samuel Johnson
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Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new…
— George Polya
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The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this…
— George Washington
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Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it…
— William Shenstone
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The fact that some people are opposed on religious grounds mainly, well, that doesn't bother me as long as they're not allowed…
— Henry Morgentaler
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