Abigail Solomon-Godeau Quotes

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

Abigail Solomon-Godeau

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• That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Creator

• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • People
  • Small
  • Wonder

• Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Important
  • Country
  • Character

• I believe in the will. I believe in discipline. I believe in the organization. I believe in the rigor that gives us work. I believe in love as an engine of all things. I believe in the light. I believe in God. I believe in kindness.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Discipline

• I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Trouble
  • Because
  • Get

• You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Family
  • End

• It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Said
  • Obsession
  • Costs

• During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Feeling
  • Food
  • Picture

• Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Career

• Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

  

  Lillian Gordy Carter
  • Time

• I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.

  

  Jay Parini
  • House
  • Wife
  • Study

• I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Band

• I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Life
  • Marriage

• I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.

  

  Joe Johnston

• I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • Long
  • War

• I never had had a large group of friends, so I often felt a little out of place and like I was in a different mindset from everyone else around me because I was so focused on my acting career.

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • Different
  • Friends
  • Career

• My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'

  

  James Callis
  • Soldier

• I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Night

• Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible; that in a beautiful work of imagination the natural should be ideal, and the ideal natural.

  

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel
  • Imagination
  • Natural
  • Ideal

• I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Great
  • Photography

• Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Time
  • Long
  • True

• One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Photography
  • Difficulty
  • Explicit

• Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

  

  Abigail Solomon-Godeau
  • Photography
  • Contemporary
  • Mining