Andreas Gursky Quotes

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

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• Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Game
  • Sweet
  • Friendship

• The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Blood
  • Suicide
  • Revenge

• Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • India

• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Like
  • See
  • Someone

• Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Book
  • Relationship

• You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Parents
  • Will
  • Utterly

• The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's also the entrance round of applause here, which we don't get too much in London.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Sound
  • New York
  • London

• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Lose
  • Speed

• Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Person
  • Dust

• Love is a credulous thing.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Thing

• Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Friends

• In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • War
  • Law
  • Democracy

• I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• 'HIM' is much more of a British, coming-of-age series, while 'Stranger Things' is very obviously a sci-fi drama.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Age
  • Things
  • Drama

• Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Yourself

• I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Love
  • Working
  • Friday

• I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Mean
  • Old
  • Masters

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this was not such a sorry state of affairs. My brain, with a little help from other people's brains, could take me to some pretty interesting places, and create all kinds of wonderful things. Despite its faults, my brain, I decided, was not the worst place in the world to be.

  

  Gavin Extence
  • World
  • Faults
  • Confined

• If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

  

  Dominic West
  • Life
  • American

• I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • People
  • Cat
  • Cute

• Europe in general is a great place for me, but specifically Germany has been very good to me. Germans love classical music... Electronic dance music is massive over there, so I'm kind of the marriage between the two.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • Environment