“Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.” ShouldEndsSadism Author:Sigmund Freud
“Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.” ShouldArtUseTermClearStylePhotographyArt IsPhotographerUselessSophisticatedDocumentsDocumentariesMislead Author:Walker Evans
“The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary.” DoeSeemsEyeInterestRiskReaderPhotographyImportanceIndependentPhotographerPhotographStatementsMinoritiesFlatsIrrelevantMisunderstood Author:Walker Evans
“I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.” ThinkingMenHappensCan DoWhitePeriodsPhotographyDiscoveryPhotographerHeat Author:Walker Evans
“Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.” MindHeartStatesDreamPastCasesConditionsBecomingAspectMoodPassingPassingsWildernessMuseumsState Of MindAmerican DreamConfinedBecoming OneSuperlatives Book:Celebrating the American Earth: a Portfolio Source: Celebrating the American Earth: a Portfolio
“I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.” GovernmentCoursesNextAsksPlansDrawsLondonDecadesObjectivesSavingDepartmentLabourSavingsTreasuryCivil Service Author:Ed Balls
“To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.” MeanResponsibility Author:Florence Kelley
“I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin and they are all Canadians.” FirstsCountryTodayAbleHousePartyMembersDeterminedChineseMinistersConsiderationPrimeItalianCitizenshipVery HappyPrime MinisterDutchUkrainianHouse Of CommonsScandinavians Author:John Diefenbaker
“Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.” WarFightingForceIndustryWorkersPartners Author:William Lyon Mackenzie King
