George A Tice Quotes
My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
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I never read about photography.
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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
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You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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I can't imagine working without and audience.
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I don't see the point in working just to be working.
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I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.
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Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.
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The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
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After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.
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People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.
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If I'm getting dressed up, I love Alice + Olivia, they have great pieces. I still look at all of the whowhatwhere.com and I read all of the fashion blogs. I'm working my way up to more grown up pieces.
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I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
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Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.
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I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it ended up working.
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I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.
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Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.
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I've gotten out of bed a lot of days for a lot less than $10,000.
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Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Auto-tuning doesn’t do anything for creativity. Yeah, it makes it easier and you can get home sooner; but it doesn’t make you a more creative person. That’s the disease we have to fight in any creative field: ease of use.
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The entire time I was following the feelings experienced by children, so the feeling of not understanding what adults say was very important to put the audience in this frequency to understand the world through his eyes.
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My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.
