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Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain. — Ann Aguirre

It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good. — Jesse Robredo

Nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?' — Walker Evans

Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude. — Marty Rubin

The caviar was very high quality. I made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater. — Jonathan Hyde

Do we know what we look like? Not really. — Walker Evans

I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm. — Charles Frazier

Die knowing something. You're not here long. — Walker Evans

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it. — Diana Krall

(Even Tucker's way of not living could be described as living, if you had a crush on him.) — Nick Hornby

Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty — Walker Evans

That's my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind. — Walker Evans

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

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. — Edith Sitwell

He means to heal our soul holes. — Ann Voskamp

Good photography is unpretentious. — Walker Evans

Arnold said this is a last minute attack by Democrats. How did Arnold know to grope only Democrats? — Jay Leno

What America needs is a political revolution. — Walker Evans

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat. — Walker Evans

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word. — Walker Evans

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. — Walker Evans

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. — Walker Evans

It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. — Walker Evans

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't need to. If the thing is there, why, there it is. — Walker Evans

In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions. — Reggie Watts

In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality. — Walker Evans

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler. — Walker Evans

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. — Walker Evans

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style. — Walker Evans

Memory is a time capsule; it records the wounds inflicted upon human consciousness. — Kilroy J. Oldster