Walker Evans Quotes
The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.
Quotes to Explore
-
The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
-
I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
-
I've started doing my Kathak, and I rehearse every day. Also, I'm eating right and keeping in shape. I'm a non-smoker and non-drinker and essentially a happy person. That's what counts the most. Your well-being is reflected in your personality.
-
I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
-
The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
-
I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.
-
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
-
In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
-
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
-
The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.
-
2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.
-
I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.
-
This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.
-
What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
-
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
-
I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
-
Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
-
The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
-
At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.
-
I love that Barry Seal is working for the CIA, and he's an awful liar. It just goes to how honest this character is at the end of the day, even as he rips off the country and the world to the tune of becoming one of the wealthiest men in America. There's an innate honesty, a purity to him.
-
When people are unable to integrate their traumatic memories, they seem to lose their capacity to assimilate new experiences as well. It is as if their personality stops at a certain points and cannot enlarge any more by the addition or assimilation of new elements. Unless they become aware of the split off elements and integrate them into a story that had happened in the past but was now over, they would experience a slow decline in their personal and professional functioning.
-
Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.
-
I always felt once it goes into movie land, the book belongs to someone else.
-
The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.
