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"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."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."
"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."
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"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 to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be."
"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."
"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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