Mathew Brady Quotes

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

Mathew Brady

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• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Art
  • Science
  • Light

• I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • School
  • Art
  • Design

• I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Study
  • Photography
  • Bicycle

• Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Time
  • Point
  • Aim

• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Done
  • Art
  • Me

• Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Art
  • Poetry

• I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Art
  • Uncomfortable

• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Art
  • True

• You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • People
  • Art
  • You

• The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Wife

• For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Art
  • Character
  • Best

• Every good painter paints what he is.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Good
  • Art
  • Painter

• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• We can be in the studio with the hottest producer, but we might not be able to create any magic! It's not about the hottest. It's about who we feel we have that connection with, and that's who we're going to be working with.

  

  Rozonda Thomas TLC
  • Magic
  • Studio
  • Producer

• If this is airing in the future and no one knows who Karl Rove is - he's the reason you all live underground.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Future
  • Reason
  • Underground

• Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?

  

  Bill Kristol
  • Leadership

• Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Different
  • Moving
  • Failure

• You did not come down from the cross when they shouted to you, mocking and reviling you: "Come down from the cross and we will believe that it is you." You did not come down because, again, you did not want to enslave man by a miracle and thirsted for faith that is free, not miraculous...I swear, man is created weaker and baser than you thought him! How, how can he ever accomplish the same things as you? ...Respecting him less, you would have demanded less of him, and that would be closer to love, for his burden would be lighter.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Free

• My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

  

  Mathew Brady
  • Art
  • Photography
  • Aim