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"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."

"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."

"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."

"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."

"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing."

"We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens."
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"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."

"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."

"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."

"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."

"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."

"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."

"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things."
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