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Quote by Igor Stravinsky

“I am an inventor of music.”

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Russian composer, considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's works spanned a wide range of musical styles, from classical to modern, and had a profound impact on music history. more

“Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events, events worth photographing. This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any event, once underway, and whatever its moral character, should be allowed to complete itself - so that something else can be brought into the world, the photograph.”

World Feels Should Character Turns Easy Interesting Situation Moral Events Cameras Photograph Intervention Moral Character

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.”

Memories Western Visuals Museums

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.”

Understanding Company Promise Standing Photograph Ease Standing Alone Slough

Author:Susan Sontag

“Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.”

Helping Photograph Doubtful

Author:Susan Sontag

“Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.”

World Kind Materials Photography Heroic Material World Overstatement

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Give me a problem, I'll give you a solution. I just love living. That's a feeling you can't fake. I'm glad every single day. I think that even the camera can feel that I'm a happy man.”

Thinking Men Giving Feels Feelings Problem Solutions Give Me Cameras Glad Fake Happy Man

Author:Will Smith

“Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.”

Men Kind Book Guy Three Walks Five Return Library Miles Snow Cents Barefoot Library Books

Author:Jack Benny

“I'm living in a very modest place. I have a room over-looking beautiful Claridge's Hotel. I thought it was better than paying Claridge's prices and overlooking the dump I'm living in.”

Beautiful Rooms Hotel Modest Dump Overlooking Looking Beautiful

Author:Jack Benny

“I'm like Will Rogers, I never met a man I didn't like... well, Eichmann maybe.”

Men Wells Mets Roger

Author:Jack Benny

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