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Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing. ↗

— Duane Michals

#art #invention #nothing #photography #surfaces

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#courtship #hard #learn #parents #your

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. ↗

— Man Ray

#existence #i #i do #paint #photograph

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there. ↗

— Monica Seles

#because #care #champions #cold #dark

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. ↗

— John Rawls

#citizens #criterion #enact #ideally #legislators

I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time. ↗

— Lou Rawls

#been #blues #doing #done #full

I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I'm going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It's a kind of discipline. ↗

— Amy Ray

#different #different things #discipline #down #going

I have so many moments. I am extremely passionate about life and at the same time, I'm always depressed, so everything's always happening at the same time for me. It's the best day and the worst day too. ↗

— Amy Ray

#always #am #best #day #depressed

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written. ↗

— Amy Ray

#book #down #draw #i #looking

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#become #circumstances #continuously #ethic #good