quotes about Mutual Understanding

“I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture.  I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.”

Source : Saul Leiter, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (2008). “Saul Leiter”, Steidl / Edition7L

“Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.”

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

“I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting.”

“I'm sure there are people who just assume we can't have hungry people in America because so many people are obese, but once you start to understand that a major cause of obesity is inadequate nutrition, it really changes that conversation.”

“A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it's time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.”

“I still enjoy the company of most dogs more than that of most people, because dogs are capable of uncomplicated enthusiasm.”

“Long ago the accusations had begun, And suddenly knew by whom it had been judged”

“After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.”

“Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.”

Source : Johnny Weir (2011). “Welcome to My World”, p.261, Simon and Schuster