I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.
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What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.
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Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.
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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
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It will be the hub of theological learning.
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Abbott Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. Costello That's what I want to find out.
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Patience is passion tamed.
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
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It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
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Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
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Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the ameteur for three, or the cry of the critc for five. (from Whistler vs. Ruskin, 1878)
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Photography helps people to see.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
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It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
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The highest qualities of character must be earned.
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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
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You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
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