"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."

Age, Ideas, Mind, Painting

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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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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

Andre Gide, French Novelist

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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time."

Neil Cavuto, American Journalist

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"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship."

Henry A. Wallace, American Vice President

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"The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age."

Compay Segundo, Cuban Musician

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"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places."

E. Joseph Cossman, American Businessman

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

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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."

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

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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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"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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"I see no reason for recording the obvious."

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

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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."

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

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"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."

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