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It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.


Robert Motherwell

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ROBERT FRANK You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph...
ROBERT FRANK It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
ROBERT FRANK There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography...
ROBERT FRANK You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.
ROBERT FULGHUM Clean up your own mess.
ROBERT FULGHUM On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential...
ROBERT FULGHUM I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
ROBERT FULGHUM I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
ROBERT FULGHUM To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for...
ROBERT FULGHUM 'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends...
ROBERT FULGHUM And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold h...
ROBERT FULGHUM The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.
ROBERT FULGHUM 'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.
ROBERT FULGHUM If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem...
ROBERT FULGHUM Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more w...
ROBERT FULGHUM