Brassaï Quotes

In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre.

Brassaï

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• I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Work
  • Price
  • Reputation

• I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Always
  • New

• Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • Good
  • Government
  • Actor

• A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Daughter
  • Lawyer
  • Africa

• I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Jobs

• Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Anglers
  • BattlesPanic

• I was very excited when I saw it and I went through it with my girlfriend and kid and we read the deals and was quite amazed by it.

  

  Gary Owens
  • Kid
  • Read
  • Girlfriend

• The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Saints
  • Meant

• Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

  

  William Blum
  • People
  • Compassion
  • Leader

• There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life.... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Life
  • Fate
  • Tragic

• Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.

  

  Roger Taylor Queen
  • People
  • Band
  • Power Station

• For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Struggles
  • Great Deeds

• Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Possession

• When I'm filming, I keep my hair in cornrows so that they can fit a wig on top of my hair.

  

  Teyonah Parris
  • Hair
  • Filming
  • Wig

• The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.

  

  David M. Raup
  • Problem
  • Gossip
  • Scientist

• Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Absence
  • Psychedelic
  • Denied

• In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre.

  

  Brassaï
  • Excitement
  • Absence
  • Grasp