Nigel Barker Quotes
Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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If I have a bad shooting day, my dad will take me to the gym.
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I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
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The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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I'm happy; I'm a happy person.
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I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.
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I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
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For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.
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Photography is my only language.
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I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.
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I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.
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The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
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I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.
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I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.
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If I could read any person's mind, it would be my cat's.
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If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.
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Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.
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I like walking around and listening to music. When my steps coincide with a beat, in my head I feel in unison with the world that I'm living in.
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I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.
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It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.
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I am now in a place where I have to be truer to myself first before anyone else. If you're not real, how can you expect others to be real with you? The older you get; you aim to have an understanding of who you are as a person. But, I can honestly say, I am a better me than I've ever been in younger years.
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Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.
