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Quotes by Latvian Authors

"I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself."

"Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual."

"We must keep both our femininity and our strength."

"Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?"

"Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness."

"Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most."

"A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was."

"Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc."

"For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation."
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