Sebastiao Salgado Quotes
Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
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The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
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I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.
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Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.
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The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.
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Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
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To many Americans, whose only knowledge of the North Star State is that it is intensely cold and populated by Swedes and Holsteins, it will come as a surprise to wake up one morning in 2004 and read in the newspaper, 'Half of U.S. Economy Now in Hands of Minnesota'.
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Find purpose. The means will follow.
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I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.
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Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.
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It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.
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Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.
