Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/23

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Political correctness
From: "Tim Spragens" <t.spragens@cityweb.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:40:45 +0100

Peter Choy passed on Sean Kernan's
> The story is told that when Mondrian was young he did some paintings
> over his old canvases. When a friend pointed out that he was wasting
> perfectly saleable canvases, he said, "I'm not trying to make
> paintings, I'm trying to find things out."

Wonderful story! I can't find the reference right now, but one 
photographer had in a signature a quote, I think it was from one of 
the WPA photographers, that working with a camera was learning 
to see. If anyone has the proper quote and attribute, I'd appreciate 
having it.