Harry Callahan Quotes

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

  

  Kaskade
  • Life
  • Chicago
  • Decisions

• Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Powerful

• Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Life
  • Film
  • My Life

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.

  

  La India
  • Life
  • Women
  • Admit

• I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to fiercely protecting those rights in order to ensure the quality of life all Americans deserve.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Justice

• I never read about photography.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Never
  • Photography
  • Read

• According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

  

  Questlove
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Day
  • Gift

• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • God
  • Man
  • Relationship

• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Truth

• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual

• Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Human
  • Place

• After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Experience

• Was that, then, the way we do things? 'Not knowing'- was that the way the most profound things happened? ... Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?

  

  Clarice Lispector
  • Life
  • Profound

• When we live life centered around what others like, feel, and say, we lose touch with our own identity. I am an eternal being, created by God. I am an individual with purpose. It's not what I get from life, but who I am, that makes the difference.

  

  Neva Coyle
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Identity

• From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

  

  Frank Lowy
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• I'm a huge fan of meditation. I know lots of people assume meditation to be some Buddhist mumbo-jumbo, but it's been scientifically documented to create therapeutic changes in the brain.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Brain
  • Changes

• I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.

  

  Dave Attell
  • Up

• Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Photography