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It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities.


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IRVING PENN Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, prepar...
IRVING PENN A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
IRVING PENN I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to ta...
IRVING PENN Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like i...
IRVING PENN I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to...
IRVING PENN I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius...
IRVING PENN Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
IRVING PENN Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue....
IRVING PENN The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously inter...
IRVING PENN I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photogra...
IRVING PENN The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this wee...
KAL PENN To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'
KAL PENN Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense a...
KAL PENN I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional polit...
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