Werner Bischof Quotes
I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
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It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
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One Direction have to do their own ironing you don't see Take That doing their own ironing!
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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.
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Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.
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Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.
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I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.
