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• In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

  Roger Ballen

  Believe, Important, Influence

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• A gentleman who for reasons of chivalry I shall not mention, but who occupied grand office, and who had taken grandly of wine and allowed veritas to overcome him, went up to the Prime Minister and told her he had always fancied her, to which the Prime Minister replied, "Quite right - you have very good taste but I just don't think you would make it at the moment.

  Nicholas Fairbairn

  Wine, Thinking, Office

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• I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Photograph, Intention

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• Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?

  Ogden Nash

  Hate, Love You, Demand

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady. It didn't occur to anyone to worry about the manner in which a photograph was taken.

  George W. S. Trow

  Worry, Important, Photographer

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• Every photograph is a realization of one of the possibilities contained within the program of the camera. The number of such possibilities is large, but it is nevertheless finite. It is the sum of all those photographs that can be taken by a camera.

  Douglas Huebler

  Numbers, Cameras, Realization

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• Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could buy postcards which show them much better.

  Edouard Boubat

  Pyramids, People, Three

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• I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Growing Up, Wish, My Family

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2010

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• When you serve lobster, you've taken a being's life away. Therefore if you create a recipe, you have to be very dedicated to elevate the lobster, to make it good and tasty of course, but at the end of the day it's a matter of paying homage.

  Eric Ripert

  The End Of The Day, Lobster, Recipes

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• Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  People, Liberty, Accomplices

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• It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.

  Jason Statham

  Dying, Quality, Thespians

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• I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they're almost never photos that I've taken.

  Robert Crumb

  Drawing, People, Personality

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• I think the best war photos I have taken have always been made when a battle was actually taking place - when people were confused and scared and courageous and stupid and showed all these things. When you look at people right at the very moment of truth, everything is quite human. You take a picture at this moment with all the mistakes in it, with everything that might be confusing to the reader, but that's the right combat photo.

  Horst Faas

  Confused, War, Mistake

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• I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to make ordinary people react - to laugh, or to see something they hadn't taken in before, or to be touched. But not to wince, I think.

  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

  Believe, Simple, Thinking

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• When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

  Saul Leiter

  Confusion, Photographer, Knows

  Saul Leiter, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (2008). “Saul Leiter”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

  Jean-Francois Millet

  Photograph, Casts, Inferiors

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• Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.

  Willy Ronis

  Spur Of The Moment, Spurs, Attention

  "Willy Ronis obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.

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• The most striking feature of the new is the sheer mass. Photography was previously a mass phenomenon, but now, quantity is doubtless the outstanding quality. For a long time photos have been taken frequently and everywhere, but now photos are taken permanently and everywhere,... What is new is that we can watch them practically in real time.

  Joachim Schmid

  Photography, Real, Long

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• Jesus has been in my room. He has taken my hand and told me, No, Not now. I have other things for you to do.

  Patsy Cline

  Jesus, Hands, Rooms

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• Microsoft doesn't have to make back the purchase price. They have to make something of Skype, not from Skype. If they fail to grow as a company, I'm going to conclude that Microsoft has officially and deliberately taken themselves off the list of "A list innovators."

  Andy Ihnatko

  Microsoft, Skype, Lists

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• When my title was taken away boxing died.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Titles, Died

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• Bill Clinton gives the appearance of taking stands-for some sort of tax cut, some sort of welfare reform, some sort of balanced budget-but these are ploys, mirages: they exist only to undermine positions taken by the Republicans. He doesn't fight for anything substantive-except of course, re-election. ...He has fallen into the dangerous habit of lip synching the presidency: he gives the appearance of leadership, but not the substance.

  Joe Klein

  Fighting, Cutting, Giving

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• The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back.

  Kinky Friedman

  School, Want, Ten Commandments

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• I felt that putting my all into the relationship would have taken me away from my career. And I couldn't do that then.

  Toni Braxton

  Careers, Felt

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• I think we are isolating ourselves, and in so isolating ourselves, I think we're minimizing ourselves, I don't think we are taken as seriously today as we were a few years ago.

  Tom Daschle

  Thinking, Years, Today

  "Daschle criticism rankles Bush on overseas trip" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2001.

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