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.
Philippe Halsman
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It all depends what you mean by.
C. E. M. Joad
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That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
William Hazlitt
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Her questions about whether Palmer would have raped her if she hadn’t been taking a forbidden bath on the job, if she’d remembered to lock the bathroom door, if she had tried to fight despite his knife—all her secret worry that it was these mistakes, her mistakes, that had caused her rape—were revealed to her as utter and total bullshit. If she’d been strutting down the street buck-naked, he didn’t have a right to touch her. No. If that woman across the street told her husband he was the worst fuck in history and gave him dog food for dinner, he didn’t have a right to hit her. No. Just because women were blamed for everything but good luck didn’t give nobody a right to do them wrong. And it didn’t mean they were supposed to take it when they were done wrong. All this woman-hurting shit had to stop. “Stop!”
BarbaraNeely
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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.
Philippe Halsman