Aaron Siskind Quotes
In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I would like to see America some day.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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Through radio I look forward to a United States of the World. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the Earth, English will become the universal language because it is predominantly the language of the ether. The most important aspect of radio is its sociological influence.
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After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
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Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
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Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
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It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
