David Burnett Quotes
Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.
Quotes to Explore
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
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Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
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We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
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That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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'That’s been a hashtag fail.' And on the temptations stemming from a life of crime: 'With the bling and everything that comes with it.'
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The most important, the most fundamental and the deepest investigations are those that affect human life and activities most profoundly. Only those scientists who have laboured, not with the aim of producing this or that, but with the sole desire to advance knowledge ultimately prove to be the greatest benefactors of humanity.
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
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With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the radio was playing one of our songs, you knew who it was immediately. But I didn't want to sing like that my whole life.
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Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.
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All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.
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This is going to make me sound really weird and stalkery, but I've bought the aftershaves of all my ex-boyfriends. Sometimes I like to smell them and be like 'aah, that's Charlie... aah that's Dan'.
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America's biggest problem is too much freedom.
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If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.
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Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.
