Bernd Becher Quotes

All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.

Bernd Becher

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• Human Eye

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• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Good
  • Done
  • Power

• I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

  

  J Allard
  • Great
  • Real
  • May

• 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

• 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

• I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Food
  • Fall
  • Sick

• I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Guys
  • Serial
  • Monogamist

• Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good Things

• 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

• Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

  

  Margaret Drabble
  • Simple

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

  

  Lillian Gordy Carter
  • Time

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

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.

  

  James Carville
  • Today
  • Design

• 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

• These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Gay

• Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.

  

  Christy Turlington

• If you were to find all the people I've worked with and ask them what they think of me, they're all just going to say, 'Oh, wonderful', and it'll just be a lot of blah.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • People

• I have anxiety.

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • Anxiety

• Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Friends

• As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Wise Man

• No life is perfect; we all have our problems and issues, and I believe that it's good to be true to who you are.

  

  Liberty Ross
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• I feel very lucky. I don't know what else there has to be. I'm happy, as corny as it sounds, to be living in a place where it's easy to live, easy to drive to the airport, easy to go pick up something at the supermarket and to have a circle of friends. Those were my goals in 1998, not to be queen of photography but to make a cultural adjustment to the West. And those are still more important goals to me than professional ones right now.

  

  Andrea Modica
  • Photography
  • Cultural
  • Adjustment

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

  

  Teju Cole
  • Photography
  • Difficulty
  • Explicit

• All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.

  

  Bernd Becher
  • Photography
  • Precision
  • Human Eye