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"Well, people from the "me" generation use photography to show off what they are doing, to show the world themselves and their friends. Those sort of diarized accounts have always been there. But the phenomena of making those diaries public is new, isn't it?"
"I think, oddly, that the world of the amateur is quite self-contained, and it depends on "likes" from other amateurs to perpetuate itself. Of course an awful lot of my colleagues are involved with Instagram - they get likes and dislikes, maybe just likes, I don't know - but I think that it's far less self-contained, the world I work in. It goes off in different directions, and is dependent on responses different from a tick or a like or whatever."
"There's an awful lot of work being done that no one ever sees, or that is only seen in the gallery world. I feel that the public are losing touch with the great stuff that's being done in photography."
"When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a few individuals have the strength and the power to walk away from the restrictions of the world and to stand fearlessly beyond it, eventually, in some distant millennium, all mankind will also come to that same liberation."
"He never stopped wanting to save the world."
"We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world."
"Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better."
"I feel that the whole Western World will benefit by the resurrection of the neutron bomb project."
"Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world."
"In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete."
"It is my fervent goal and hope... that we will someday no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth."
"When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there."
"Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it"
"Nicholas Sarkozy made the point that both America and France have political systems that they want to share with the world. There's an emphasis on being a unique person. Screw you if you don't like it. But the problem is, they're all the same."
"The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched."
"By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is."
"Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world."
"Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world"
"I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me."
"Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world."
