Philippe Halsman Quotes
A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.
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I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
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All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
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You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
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New England is demanding newer, cleaner, and more innovative energy sources - energy sources that create jobs here in New England. We should also demand newer, cleaner, and more innovative transmission methods.
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We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.
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Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.
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Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!
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I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.
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A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them.
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Painting, an oeuvre, is not such a big deal, it is so unimportant. But that’s precisely what makes it interesting.
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A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were.
