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Brassai10 quotes“The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.”
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The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence
BrassaiBrassai For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.
BrassaiBrassai You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.
Brandon SandersonBrandon Sanderson If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.
Bill BrandtBill Brandt If you take your inspiration from nature, you don’t invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something.
BrassaiBrassai My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality.
BrassaiBrassai When you’re older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.
Billy OceanBilly Ocean I’ve never known a lot of rich people. It’s not my bag.
Bob DoleBob Dole I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary.
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
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It is hard that people don’t just let you do your job for them and entertain, and then carry on your own life.
Blake LivelyBlake Lively We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PlotinusPlotinus We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
PlotinusPlotinus As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
PlotinusPlotinus The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
Maria MontessoriMaria Montessori It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
C. V. RamanC. V. Raman The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
Maria MontessoriMaria Montessori I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
Eartha KittEartha Kitt