"We are symbols, and inhabit symbols. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A loss of harmony with the surrounding space, the

inability to feel at home in the world, so oppressive to an

expatriate, a refugee, an immigrant, paradoxically integrates him in contemporary society and makes him,

if he is an artist, understood by all. Even more, to express the existential situation of modern man, one must live in exile of some sort. [Czeslaw Milosz "On Exile"]

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Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more

curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. ----Man Ray

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I get inspired, in America, by a certain kind of sleaziness. I do like luxury, but I've done a lot of that in the past. ---Helmut Newton

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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. ----Yousuf Karsh

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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

----Richard Avedon

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It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian. ----Robert Capa

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A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

------Ernst Haas

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“A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.” -- Federico Fellini

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