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• I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

  Lewis Baltz

  Photography, Art, People

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• We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to monumentalize the object. This was exploited in terms of a socialistic view - a fresh view of the world, a new man, a new beginning.

  Bernd Becher

  New Beginnings, Men, World

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• I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place.... My body must be anchored to the ground and seek the best point of view, without any visual taboos. But then, at the heart of the event, my effort is to disappear, I introduce a distance that borders on indifference.

  Luc Delahaye

  Distance, Heart, Effort

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• In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated.

  Andy Grundberg

  Illustration, News, Magazines

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• Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable because it was a product of our vision of the world; and it did so as part of the same process which seemed to impart 'truth': science.

  Joseph Kosuth

  Photography, Art, Vision

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• I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

  Saul Leiter

  Numbers, Photographer, Reason

  "Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast". Interview with Dean Brierly, photographyinterviews.blogspot.com. April 22, 2009.

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• Perhaps the first photograph ever taken, Niépce's view of the rooftops over Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, was a truly pure photograph. The second one he took, he was already comparing nature to the first photograph he had taken.

  Vik Muniz

  Taken, Saint, Rooftops

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• Ansel [Adams] always jumped over the fence to photograph, walked past the garbage. He always looked to get an immaculate view, and I spent my life stepping back to include the garbage in my photographic view.

  Rondal Partridge

  Past, Garbage, Photograph

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• If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to change his ideas or respond to the needs of the broader population. He can rest content with a mediocre, absentee performance knowing he will be returned to office. And as he is returned year after year the seniority system gives him immense control over people from other parts of the country whose views he need not heed at all.

  Edward Kennedy

  Country, Years, Ideas

  Edward Moore Kennedy (1968). “Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s”, New American Library of Canada

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• Our view of the law is that it - if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Law, Documentation, Deportation

  "Pelosi to Telemundo: We Need to See “Action from the President” on Deportation Record". Interview with Telemundo, www.latinorebels.com. December 16, 2013.

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• I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else.

  Glenn Beck

  Libertarian, Tables, Conservative

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• As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent to do some repetitive job, but not intelligent enough to make their own terms with society." Those "intelligent enough" to make their own terms with society are what we will later refer to as artists of life. The outsider views himself as a product of a culture he rejects-the artist views himself as a culture-builder.

  Laurence Boldt

  Jobs, Artist, Intelligent

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.94, Penguin

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• In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Mean, Government

  The Russell-Einstein Manifesto, July 9, 1955.

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• We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Special, Kind, Privileged

  "People say I'm strident" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2008.

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• The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Religious, Mistake

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• American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and wander through life on the basis of sentiment and clichés.

  Os Guinness

  Confused, Thinking, Evil

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• Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain and gaining new and wider views.

  Albert Einstein

  Climbing, Creating, Mountain

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• Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

  Peter Drucker

  Decision, Doe, Firsts

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• How do you view God in a desert? There's two types of birds. There's vultures, and there's hummingbirds. One lives off dead carcasses, rotting meat. The other lives off the beautiful, sweet, nectar in a particular flower, on a particular desert plant, in the same desert. They both find what they're looking for. Do you know - take it all the way back into the Old Testament - and the Muslim and you, we actually serve the same God. Allah, to a Muslim; to us, Abba Father, God.

  Brian Houston

  Beautiful, Sweet, Father

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• We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right.

  Stephen Covey

  Communication, Acceptance, Ideas

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• I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

  Lady Gaga

  Queens, Want, Fans

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• I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.

  Lou Reed

  Eagles, Style, Elements

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• If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.

  Lou Reed

  Horse, Experts, Students

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• As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .

  Joseph Brodsky

  Writing, People, Language

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.

  Bill Nye

  Believe, Optimistic, Space

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