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JONATHON GREEN (from
wikipedia)
Jonathon Green (born 20 April 1948 in
Kidderminster,
Worcestershire) is a British
lexicographer of
slang and writer on the history of alternative cultures. Jonathon Green is
often referred to as the English-speaking world’s leading lexicographer of
slang,[1]
and has even been described as 'The most acclaimed
British lexicographer since
Johnson'.[2]
Quotations from A DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY QUOTATIONS compiled by Jonathon Green are dotted throughout this site with the kind permission of the writer.
These pages will have quotations with more to come...............
Magritte
Henri Matisse
Pablo Picasso
Joan Miro
Andy Warhol
Paul Klee
Marcel Duchamp
Jean Dubuffet
Georges Braque
Maria Callas
Leonard Bernstein
Yehudi Menuhin
John Cassavetes
IsaacStern
Pablo Casals
George Balanchine
Berenice Abbott
ANSEL ADAMS
EDWARD STEICHEN
EDWARD WESTON
Andy Warhol
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
GEORGE
BRASSAI
Diana Arbus
MAY
RAY
Dorothea Lange
Frank Lloyd Wright
Marcel Breuer
Le Corbusier
Mies van der Rohe
Orso Welles
Peter Ustinov
John Cassavetes
Charles Chaplin
Read what Jonathon Green
says about his work - "what I do"
Quotation of the Day - every day we plan to add a new
quotation from
Jonathon Green's Book -
A DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY QUOTATIONS on the HOME Page
JAMES THURBER - "A woman's place is in the
wrong"
FRANCOISE SAGAN - "I like men to behave like men - strong and
childish"
GERMAINE GREER - "I love men like some people like good food or
wine"
THE OBSERVER 1979
DALE CARNEGIE - "Act as if you were already happy and
that will tend to make you happy"
HELENA RUBENSTEIN - "There are no ugly women, only lazy ones."
PIERRE BOULEZ - "If you kill imagination, that is a kind of
long-term suicide."
THE OBSERVER 1971
WOODY ALLEN -"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't
want to be there when it happens."
NEWS WEEK 1975
ALBERT SCHWEITZER - "Man is a clever animal who
behaves like an imbecile"
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT-"Less is only more where more is no good."
THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE 1953
MAE WEST - "Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you."
NOEL COWARD - "Never trust a man with short legs - brains too near
their bottoms."
QUENTIN CRISP -"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your
level. It's cheaper.
LAWRENCE DURRELL - "History is an endless repetition of the wrong
way of living."
THE LISTENER 1978
MOTHER TERESA of CALCUTTA - "God has not called me to be
successful, he has called me to be faithful."
MISSIONARY 1980
KARL KRAUS - "The devil is an optimist if he thinks
he can make people meaner."
Karl Kraus by Harry Zohn
BERENICE ABBOT - "I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document."
PICTURES ON A PAGE - Harold Evans 1978
"A photograph is not a painting, a Poem, a symphoNy, a dance. It is
not just a pretty picture....It is, or should be, a significant document, a
penetrating statement , which can be described in a very simple term -
selectivity.
UNIVERSAL PHOTO ALMANAC 1951
ANSEL ADAMS - "Photography is but one phase of the potential of
human expression: all art is the expression of one and the same thing -
the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world."
PSA Journal 1948
"A picture is usually looked at,
seldom looked into"
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER
EDWARD STEICHEN -
"The real mission of photography is explaining man to himself."
Esquire 1969
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
-
"Photography is like fencing.
You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust."
THE OBSERVER 1957
GEORGE
BRASSAI
-
"There are many photographs which are full of life, but which are confusing
and difficult to remember.
It is the force of an image which matters. "
Amateur Photographer 1969
MAN RAY -
"Open confidences are being made every day, and it remains for the eye to
train itself to see them without prejudice or restraint."
Photographers on Photography ed. N Lyons 1966
"An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy
to aid its realisation."
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