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"There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."

"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."
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"Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be."

"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection."

"Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately."

"I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without."

"My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea."

"Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual."

"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."

"There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me."
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