Joel Sternfeld Quotes
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
Ori Gersht -
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Sam Abell -
I never read about photography.
Sally Mann -
I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
Ikue Mori -
Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
Pamela Meyer -
In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.
Ralph Gibson
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
P. J. Harvey -
I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
Harold Feinstein -
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
Parker Stevenson -
I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.
Sally Mann -
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers -
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
Garry Winogrand
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As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell -
I've been working almost 20 years, and I think I've worked with maybe one black director of photography in that time. Maybe two women directors or DPs. Maybe. And I've done a lot of TV. That's a lot of people I've worked with.
Mahershala Ali -
'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'
Banksy -
Every time one combines and records facts in accordance with established logical processes, the creative aspect of thinking is concerned only with the selection of the data and the process to be employed, and the manipulation thereafter is repetitive in nature and hence a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.
Vannevar Bush -
Imagination is the manipulation of images in one's head... the rational manipulation... as well as the literary and artistic manipulation.
Jacob Bronowski -
And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.
Larry Wall
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I think we live in a time where we can all distract ourselves from facing the pain or the reality of all of our lives - tons of ways to hide, to kill pain, to deal with pain.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
Dubuffet marvels at the desert as a chaotic palimpsest, filled with marks and signs ..like an immense notebook of disorganization, a notebook of improvisation.. ..an elementary school blackboard full of scribbles..
Jean Dubuffet -
MLB is a special, but fairly priced, family fare.
Bob DuPuy -
Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.
Charles Durning -
Photography has always been capable of manipulation.
Joel Sternfeld