Eve Arnold Quotes

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

Eve Arnold

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• Photographer
• Overwhelming
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• Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Art
  • Comeback
  • Ever

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Bad
  • You
  • Fighting

• In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

• Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Alien
  • Intolerance
  • Hinduism

• The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Yourself

• First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Me

• It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Work
  • Find

• Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • Film

• Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Done
  • Evil
  • Decision

• Ut ameris, amabilis esto.

  

  Ovid

• I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Faith
  • Lost

• I don't like kitten heels. I just don't think they are an attractive shoe because they always look so stumpy. And I would never wear cowboy boots: a pointy toe and little heel is just not my thing.

  

  Jessica Hart
  • Cowboy

• I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Life
  • Earth

• When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Law

• I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Revolution

• Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

  

  Maurice Druon
  • Society

• Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Desire
  • Soldier
  • Glory

• Real beauty is never vain.

  

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews
  • Beauty
  • True Beauty
  • Really Cute

• Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

  

  Noah Webster
  • Education
  • Bible
  • Direct

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• Well, that's a judgment that you are making. I promise you that if you look at it from outside, and perhaps you're taking rather a parochial view at the moment, I don't think that other people in the world would share the view that there is mounting chaos.

  

  James Callaghan
  • People
  • World
  • Promise

• What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Curiosity
  • Photographer
  • Overwhelming