“To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.” IfsWorldShouldMayMeanPhilosophyRealityEyeTodayCoursesBehindsHonestSeriousExpressionPhotographyDirectPhotographerPhotographConnectedEvolveMeritRelatedConsiderationPulseSelective Author:Berenice Abbott
“We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.” PeopleKnowsWholeActionChanceHonestDependsRegardFortuneNeighborWhole LifeEsteemReputationMeritAcquireHarvestGood FortuneUsefulnessProximity Author:George Augustus Henry Sala
“The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.” HonestMeritHallsClosetsFlatteryFlatterer Author:Jane Porter
“But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.” MayDoeSeemsLastsArtistHonestMinesUnderstoodGreedInvestingPainfulPainterBitterVanityBeing HonestMeritMy TimeConfessionClownImbecilityGoyaGiotto Author:Pablo Picasso
“Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and women who betray. I'm hoping that, by living inside their skins while he hears their stories, he'll understand over time that women are not all this way or that way. I'm hoping he'll look at women as he does at men-that you must judge each of us on her own merits, and not condemn us or exalt us only because we belong to a particular sex.” MenWayLooksDoeStoriesStrongSexHonestStupidParticularJudgingMen And WomenWeakSkinsCleverTalesMeritShyBetrayStrong WomenOld WomanGood WomanBad WomanWeak WomenClever WomanHonest Woman Author:Susan Fletcher