Gjon Mili quotes

“My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.”
-- Gjon Mili

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“Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement.”
-- Gjon Mili

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“After a decade I became fed up with the strobe because I had done almost everything once and I didn't want to repeat myself.”
-- Gjon Mili

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“Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

“However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.”

“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

“The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”

Source : "Who Invented the Internet? (It Wasn’t Al Gore)". "Glenn Beck Program", September 15, 2016.

“Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck.”

Source : "The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from Setbacks". Book by Al Siebert, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2005.

“We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.”

“We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.”

“Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.