“The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.” YearsBelieveStillsUseCertainDecisionQualityAccountsSightPhotographerPhotographAppropriateVocabularyEmbarrassingCompelledI Still Believe Author:Robert Adams
“That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have not the faintest recollection of ever getting out again; and if memory were all we had to trust to, I should be compelled to believe I was there still.” IfsWayShouldBelieveChildrenStillsRememberMemoriesBoysHugeBrokenHolesDustToysCompelledRecollectionTumbling Book:Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1 Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1
“In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.” MenWayBelieveStillsWantedArtistCultureDifficultMen And WomenHumbleAidsArtisticAtmospherePermitCompelledMachineryPassivity Book:Complete Essays: 1930-1935 Source: Complete Essays: 1930-1935