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Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.


William Penn

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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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