Andreas Gursky Quotes

Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

Andreas Gursky

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• I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Men
  • Women
  • Politics

• The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • War
  • Peace
  • Day

• Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Wise

• I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Like

• I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Mom
  • Cool
  • Thought

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Sugar

• If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Together
  • Fall
  • Find

• Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Best

• French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Real
  • Bad

• At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Cold
  • Grateful
  • Prison

• China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Strong
  • Government
  • China

• Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Die

• It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Good
  • Career
  • Plan

• I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Home
  • Day

• I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Job
  • Try
  • Field

• I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Little

• Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Good
  • Women
  • Power

• There is a reality - so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography.

  

  Alfred Stieglitz
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Reality

• It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Impossible

• I think there's a general confusion that my work is about types of photography. But really that's just a tool to introduce some questions I have about seeing. What happens when all of these conditions and structures and histories and cultures and tools you have around you begin to fail? On the one hand there is an engagement with histories and cultures, and on the other, there is this very lonesome space of actually coming to terms with seeing.

  

  Elad Lassry
  • Photography
  • Conditions
  • Fail

• I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

  

  Bob Balaban
  • Money

• I don’t think Kitchen makes this. What’s it called again?" "Jell-O Surprise." Link grinned. "What’s the surprise?" Ridley examined the red gelatin more closely. "What they put in it.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Red
  • Kitchen

• Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • Photography
  • Impossible
  • Term