Nick Brandt Quotes

You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.

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• I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Know
  • I Can

• Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Acting

• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Women
  • Grow

• In my beginning is my end.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End

• Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Knowledge
  • Problem
  • Brain

• I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Support
  • Lost

• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Work
  • Father
  • Brother

• Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Confidence
  • Fact
  • Cause

• We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Think
  • Always
  • Matters

• Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Political

• I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Women
  • Power
  • Think

• Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Real
  • Desire
  • Beginning

• I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Independent
  • Belief
  • Show

• You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

  

  T. H. White
  • World
  • May
  • Night

• I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.

  

  Fady Joudah
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Power

• The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He came on earth to do. It was the crowning proof that the ransom He paid for sinners was accepted, the atonement for sin accomplished, the head of him who had the power of death bruised, and the victory won.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Work
  • Great
  • Power

• In your generation, everybody is constantly bombarded with all kinds of different input from different cultures, and that's a strength, that's a positive thing. That's why I remain confident about America's ability to compete in the world, precisely because we've got a little bit of everybody in this country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Different
  • Country

• I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Spirit
  • Apparitions

• Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Force
  • Mankind
  • Nonviolence

• You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.

  

  Nick Brandt
  • Spirit
  • Move
  • Portrait