Andre Kertesz Quotes

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

Andre Kertesz

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• When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Why
  • You

• In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Good
  • Film
  • Stars

• Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Crimes
  • Using
  • Link

• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Friendship
  • Keep

• When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Live
  • Present
  • Singing

• Every crowd has a silver lining.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Crowd
  • Silver
  • Lining

• I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.

  

  Young Thug
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Shoes

• The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • People
  • Work
  • New

• One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Alone
  • Path

• People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People

• I remembered Elizabeth had never laughed once during our talk. I feel that she hasn't learned how. The great house is so still and lonely and laughterless. It looks dull and gloomy even now when the world is a riot of autumn color. Little Elizabeth is doing too much listening to lost whispers.

  

  Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • World
  • Great
  • She

• About fame... Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life

• It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Practice

• Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • History
  • Nature

• Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

  

  Colin Powell
  • People

• If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Trying
  • Cold
  • Sick

• In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • House
  • Unique

• Women take so long to get ready, but when they get out of the bathroom, they look smokin' hot. That's the struggle of men throughout history, waiting by the door. The wait is so worth it. Always.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.

  

  John Schlesinger
  • Great

• The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.

  

  Quentin Crisp

• All the things that can happen to an artist regardless of how prepared they are and how smart they are and hard-working they are and attractive - doesn't matter. There's always somebody cuter. There just is.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Smart

• Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.

  

  Charles Nodier
  • Earth
  • Greece
  • Maidens

• I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

  

  Pope Francis
  • God
  • Believe
  • Father

• The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

  

  Andre Kertesz