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Things might come early, but they never come too late
Garry Shandling

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"Everything in the world has been photographed a few million times and it does not stop. At this time in the history of photography, everything has been done. All the novelties have been done; yet the pseudo critics ask for more pseudo-originality. All we have to look for now is, as a picture, does it move my heartstrings? If it does, why should I condemn it because it happens to look like something Weston did?"

Minor White

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"Such a tiresome illness is good health, preserved by too much dieting."

French Philosopher Montesquieu

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"We must live together as brothers, or perish together as fools."

Martin Luther King

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R.I.P Stuart Scott

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When you die, that doesn't mean you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live and the manner in which you live.
Stuart Scott

Smokey Robinson

"I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event in the history of music."

William "Smokey" Robinson

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"You can't join the throng, until you write your own song."

Miles Davis

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Teaching must be as creative as creation is teaching.

 photographer Larry Fink

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Like they say, "Time wounds all heels."

John Lennon

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Those select few, through time, who are willing to go to chaos with some high hopes of interacting with a moment, where life will be clarified for them. They can welcome ambiguity and surreal aspects of this kind of chaos, even though it's chaos, they will have a moment of clarification.

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz
From the Movie, Everybody Street

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Detroit looks like nowhere else. Detroit looks like motherfuckin' Detroit. As it should….I love Detroit. I love Detroiters. You've got to have a sense of humor to live in a city so relentlessly fucked. You've got to be tough-and occasionally devious. And Detroiters are funny, tough-and supreme improvisors. They are also among the best and most fun drinkers in the country.

Anthony Bourdain

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I hate (and I use the world advisedly) all this emphasis on the value of art works as it turns objects made with passion and infinite care into negotiable artifacts.

Graham Beal- Museum Director for the Detroit Institute of Arts

Studio of Alberto Giacometti

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Digital cameras, cell phones, and social media have democratized photography, to the point where everyone today is a photographer. We look, but we don't see. By giving meaning to everything, we give nothing value.

Richard Buckley
from the book Kodachrome Memories

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If Belle Isle had its own air freshener scent, it would be marijuana and BBQ. "Dude, what the heck did you do in this car?" "Oh, that's just my Eau de Isle."....Points to island-shaped cut-out dangling from the rear view mirror.

Jerry Paffendorf
High school drop out, artist, futurist and entrepreneur 

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Detroit's assets need to be understood in terms of what they can do to revive the city, not on what cash they will produce at auction.

James S. Russell

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I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

Alec Soth

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"The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word 'objective.' My belief is that my responsibilities within journalism are two. My first responsibility is to my subjects. My second responsibility is to my readers."

Eugene Smith

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"The photograph is seen either as a mirror-a romantic expression of the photographers sensibility as it projects itself on the things and sights of this world; or as a window-through which the exterior world is explored in all its presence and reality."

John Szarkowski

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“I am not especially interested in anonymous photography, or pictorialist photography, or avant-garde photography, or in straight, crooked or any other subspecific category of photography; I am interested in the entire, indivisible, hairy beast — because in the real world, where photographs are made, these subspecies, or races, interbreed shamelessly and continually.” 

John Szarkowski

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The central tenet of today's congress is careerism. Both parties today are ultimately controlled not by ideas but by the desire to be in control, a posture that creates little motivation for bold change.

Tom Colburn

"Political Rally" by Robert Frank