Cornell Capa Quotes
With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.
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Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
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In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?
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The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
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I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.
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Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
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I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
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I'm a visual learner, so film is a huge inspiration to me.
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The fact that Iran asked for these discussions this morning - they are not negotiations - illustrated the fact that Iran is concerned about its international position.
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Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.
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One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.
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My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.
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One thing about the Arena Football League, they know how to generate excitement. They have us opening the season at the same place where our season ended last year. It will be an electric atmosphere, and I, for one, can't wait.
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The discussions are at a formative stage and it would be inappropriate to speculate on the outcome.
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In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form.
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At that time the African American community was not a large reading community. They learned from observation and participation. So we had a lot of visuals that they could identify with. Photographs and short captions, as opposed to long, drawn-out essays and editorials. They were visual interpretations of the conditions people lived in. Inner cities, poor communities. Combined with revolutionary imagery. The people saw themselves in the artwork. They became the heroes. They could see their uncles in it. They could see their fathers or their brothers and sisters in the art.
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I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights.
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His life story was the story of Patricia and him, after all, for better or worse, and if she ended his life might go on, but his story would be over. He tripped
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We live in a visual world now.
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Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.
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We are the party of big guns, fast cars, and hot women. If you can't sell freedom to the American people then you're in the wrong line of work.
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With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.
