Andreas Gursky Quotes

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

Andreas Gursky

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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

• There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Man
  • Know
  • Old

• 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

• Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Confidence

• 'You told your mother I was gonna blow you up with a fucking pumpkin bomb? What did she say?' 'She. Was. Terrified. She wants me to move home.'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Home
  • She

• Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of traveling carnivals, roadside attractions, and a beloved, eccentric father’s descent into Alzheimers. Just as her dad animated the handcarved, miniature western world of Tinkertown from coat hangers, inner tubes and old sewing machine motors, Tanya Ward Goodman has fashioned her complex and often hilarious memories into a beguiling, wry, and moving work of art.

  

  Michelle Huneven
  • World
  • Writing
  • Heart

• I'm not a sun person.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Person
  • Sun

• I have been brought to my emotional knees, but not in regard to the science of this topic, ... I am a devastated, broken, grieving mother, but I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue.

  

  Christine Maggiore
  • Understanding
  • Emotional
  • Knees

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

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • Environment