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~ That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not ~

Thomas Paine

~ The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game ~

Earl Weaver

~ Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading ~

Jonathan Swift

~ Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince ~

Joan of Arc

~ Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement ~

George Burton Adams

~ It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction ~

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

~ I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers. ~

Samuel Butler

~ A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this quote with a friend ~

Jean Helion

~ Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development of their own in accordance with the inherent laws from which they are separately derived. Both, however, aim toward the realization of the same image. And both deal with the depth problem. ~

Hans Hofmann

~ The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it. ~

Henri Matisse

~ When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~

Ansel Adams

~ There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ~

Ansel Adams

~ Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made. ~

Sam Abell

~ It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. ~

Vincent Van Gogh

~ There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours seeking, waiting, and hesitation, the photographer sees the realization of his inward vision, and in that moment he has one advantage over most arts - his medium is swift enough to record his momentary inspiration ~

Sadakichi Hartmann

~ The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system. ~

Walker Evans

~ Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools. ~

Ken Rockwell

~ The photographic image ... is a message without a code. ~

Roland Barthes

~ The photographic image ... is a message without a code. ~

Roland Barthes

~ To visualize an image in whole or in part is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final prin ~

AndrÈ Bazin

~ These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me ~

Ansel Adams

~ Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue ~

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

~ Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue ~

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

~ There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. ~

Ansel Adams

~ To manipulate an image is to control a people ~

Carolyn Gerard

~ To manipulate an image is to control a people ~

Carolyn Gerard

~ Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. ~

John Berger

~ The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. ~

Marcus Tullius Cicero

~ By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth ~

George Carlin

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