Edward Steichen Quotes
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
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I was in banking because it was high-paying, intense, a real meritocracy, and the afterwork part was fun, but I found everything to do with banking so boring.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.
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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
