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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
-
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
-
Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
-
Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
-
I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
-
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
-
You have to create something from nothing.
-
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.
-
We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
-
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
-
The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.
-
I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
-
All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
-
You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
-
What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
-
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.
-
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.
-
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
-
I think for most new kids it’s important to sound different from the rest, to have your own sound, to be able to produce something that’s not there yet . . . If you want to be unique and you want to be a big DJ, create your own style, create your own signature.
-
You're not going to hit it every single time, and that's why, when I record an album, I do probably close to 50 songs. Each song I record has to get better. If it's not better than the last song that I made, it'll usually linger for a couple of months, and then it'll be put on the backburner, and then there'll be another song that I do, and then it often doesn't make it on the album.
-
No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.
-
All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.
-
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.
