William Klein Quotes
I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
Viktor Orban
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Sam Abell
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I never read about photography.
Sally Mann
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
Wally Lamb
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
Dan Quisenberry
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
P. J. Harvey
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I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
Harold Feinstein
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My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
Parker Stevenson
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I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.
Sally Mann
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Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
Garry Winogrand
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I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
Ori Gersht
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As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell
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I've been working almost 20 years, and I think I've worked with maybe one black director of photography in that time. Maybe two women directors or DPs. Maybe. And I've done a lot of TV. That's a lot of people I've worked with.
Mahershala Ali
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Berenice Abbott
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Today, I am no longer concerned with photography as an art form. I believe it is potentially the best medium for explaining man to himself and his fellow man.
Edward Steichen
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I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.
Tyson Chandler
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Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.
Jeff Bridges
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While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during all moments previous to, or preparatory for, the pressing. It does not only operate in the blinding flash of a moment seized; it works all the time. The snatched picture merely cuts across the vein of observable incident or accident which is always beating, whether or not the fingers actually press.
Lincoln Kirstein
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I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.
Sarah Addison Allen
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep....
Robert Frost
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Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.
Brigid Schulte
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Dodd-Frank is the most restrictive financial regulation since the Great Depression—but it won’t stop another bubble.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.
William Klein