Wright Morris Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.
-
I have a relatively good track record.
-
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
-
Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
-
The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.
-
A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
-
Having Buzz there is a great achievement, he was on the first moon landing alongside Neil Armstrong, so getting his signature on a beautiful panoramic photograph will be an historical item to treasure.
-
People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore." I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.
-
When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.
-
The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.
-
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
-
I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
-
A photograph can look any way.
-
I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.
-
There is no special way a photograph should look.
-
For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.
-
My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.
-
My project could be only to photograph as I felt and desired, to regulate a pleasant form of living, to get up in the morning-free, to feel the trees, the grass, the water, sky or buildings, people-everything that affects us; and to photograph that which I saw and have always felt.
-
The only song that I've ever played on when I was not allowed to hear the backing track. 'Just make whooping oodle noises for three minutes', was the cry from the control room. 'Bastards', I thought at the time.
-
The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.
-
One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Team America is a work of genius to me.
-
In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.
