Alvin Langdon Coburn Quotes

My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

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• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

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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.

  

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• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

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• I never read about photography.

  

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• Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.

  

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• When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

  

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• Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

  

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• Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.

  

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• When trust improves, the mood improves.

  

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• All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about. You don't think about other people.

  

  Nate Parker
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• Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.

  

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• The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.

  

  Damian Loeb
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• My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.

  

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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.

  

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• My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.

  

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• Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.

  

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• 'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'

  

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• I don't know anybody who thinks they have it all... I count myself extremely lucky to have a fantastic family and the career I always wanted.

  

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• You can maintain work-life balance even while pursuing careers.

  

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• I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.

  

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• Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.

  

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• One of the things that's funniest about the entertainment industry and comedy is that people go 'Oh, you're great, but I don't know what to do with you.' The great thing about the Internet is that nobody has to figure out what to do with you. You can figure out what to do with you, and you can say, 'I made this thing, and I'm going to put it out, and now if people want to come see me and buy things from me they can.'

  

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• My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else.

  

  Alvin Langdon Coburn
  • Information
  • Photography
  • Mood