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It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize… — Diane Arbus
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable. — Ansel Adams
My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees,… — Alfred Stieglitz
One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years - learning,… — Edward Weston
Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would… — John of Salisbury
It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens… — Jean Genet
Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither. — Edward Abbey
When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course,… — Julian Barnes
I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing,… — Thomas Jefferson
I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be… — Annie Leibovitz
Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single,… — Minor White
I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was… — George Orwell
The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it. — Stephen Shore
Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes… — Bob Dylan
But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of… — Randall Munroe
I have seen the future, and it works. — Lincoln Steffens
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs. — Chinua Achebe
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing',… — Carl Jung
We have not yet seen what man can make of man. — B.F. Skinner
In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A… — Friedrich Nietzsche
This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial… — Karl Marx
While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment… — Hannah Arendt
This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never… — Hannah Arendt

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