Sebastiao Salgado Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
-
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
-
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
-
Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
-
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.
-
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
-
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
-
Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
-
My painting does not come from the easel.
-
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
-
I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
-
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
-
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
-
First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.
-
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
-
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
-
The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
-
All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.
-
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
-
I say whatever I think and whatever is on my mind, and I just hope that it comes out good. I just try to have a lot of fun.
-
There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.
-
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is
-
For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.
