“Being photographed does not make a man a good writer. It doesn't make a man anything.”
The Deliverance from Error https://www.amazon.com/Al-Ghazalis-Path-Sufism-Deliverance-al-Munqidh/dp/1887752307
“If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.”
Sheff
David
May 1983
Playboy
http://davidsheff.com/article/ansel-adams/
Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams
226
“No one does a good deed but Allah will make it show on him.”
Az-Zuhd by Ahmad ibn Hanbal, p. 185
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
Attributed to Adams in E.T. Schoch (2002), The Everything Digital Photography Book (2002) p. 105
Aphorism 44
Les Caractères (1688), Du mérite personnel
Context: That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.
“Just because you are lucky does not mean you make good choices.”
Euronews, Culture, Cinema, "Viggo Mortensen honoured at Marrakech Film Festival", http://www.euronews.com/2014/12/11/viggo-mortensen-honoured-at-marrakech-film-festival/ (December 11, 2014).
“To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more”
Essay 2, Section 6
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
Context: To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle which even the apes might subscribe; for it has been said that in devising bizarre cruelties they anticipate man and are, as it were his "prelude."
