Andreas Feininger Quotes

Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.

Andreas Feininger

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• Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Day

• I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Always
  • Picture
  • Start

• I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Style

• Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Today
  • Human
  • Relationships

• Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• I don't want to hear about my death.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Want
  • Death
  • Hear

• A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Things
  • Inspiration
  • Banal

• One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • Movie
  • Stupid

• I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Want
  • Song

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Going
  • Run
  • Away

• And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Me
  • Write

• Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Society

• I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Reader
  • Throw
  • Voracious

• You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • You
  • Chance

• The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Believe
  • Stop
  • Yourself

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

  

  Walter Lang
  • People
  • World
  • God

• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Courage
  • Virtue
  • Point

• I've had a couple of family members deal with cancer, and I remember that moment where they're going into surgery, and you just have no idea what's going to happen, and it's really scary.

  

  Jonathan Levine
  • Family
  • Remember
  • Couple

• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Artist
  • Mechanic
  • Synthesis

• Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • Strong

• Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.

  

  Paul Auster
  • People
  • Art
  • Book

• Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.

  

  Andreas Feininger
  • Art
  • Photograph
  • Technique