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“Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.”

Ifs Trying Artist Values Turns Records Truth Is Difficulty Threat Photographer Selling Contradiction Gray Shade Cash Worn Shades Of Gray

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.”

Eye Turns Cases His Eyes Gray Tobacco Printing Manuscripts Blur Printer

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

“Sometimes love is so intense that it turns into this gray area that borders on hate. That's what happens when the people you love have that type of power over you.”

People Sometimes Happens Hate Turns Love Is Type Areas Intense Borders Over You Gray Time Love Gray Area Sometimes Love

Author:Julie Murphy

“Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,It turns and turns to say "Good-by!Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"Then lightly travels on its way.”

Way Turns Sky Dear Clouds Gray Snowflake

Book:When Life is Young: A Collection of Verse for Boys and Girls

Source: When Life is Young: A Collection of Verse for Boys and Girls

“Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On whose gray surface runes are traced by a Norn, Who hopes to wake the Future to arise, In Phoenix-fashion, and to shine with rays, To blast the sight of modern men whose dyes, Of selfishness and lust have stained our days...”

Men Age Turns Modern Fashion Shapes Sight Shining Surface Lust Arise Selfishness Iron Gray Rays Ashes Rainbow Torn Fragments Fluid Blast Phoenix Modern Man Runes

Author:Philip Jose Farmer

“Stand here by my side and turn, I pray, On the lake below thy gentle eyes; The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray, And dark and silent the water lies; And out of that frozen mist the snow In wavering flakes begins to flow; Flake after flake, They sink in the dark and silent lake.”

Eye Lying Turns Sides Water Dark Praying Flow Silent Clouds Heavy Snow Gentle Lakes Over It Gray Frozen I Pray Mist Flakes Wavering Hang Over

Author:William C. Bryant

“my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.”

Turns Social Hair My Family Gray Assets Handicaps

Book:When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat

Source: When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat

“Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.”

Real Soul Ends Matter Inspiration Spirit Turns Secret Brain Blood Journey Adventure Cold Lovers Sick Weight Meetings Clouds Nostalgia Gray Adventurer Dismay Lovers Meeting

Book:Max (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

Source: Max (EasyRead Comfort Edition)