Walker Evans Quotes

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

Walker Evans

• Walking
• Difficult
• Photography
• Arts
• Jokingly

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• I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Study
  • Photography
  • Bicycle

• Recent studies have shown that our creativity is increased by 60% when we're walking. I encourage my workshop participants to write at their desks but think on their feet.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Walking
  • Creativity
  • Feet

• The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Control
  • Red
  • Difficult

• You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Home
  • Day
  • Walking

• Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Desire
  • Alone
  • Moment

• The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Difficult
  • Year

• I never read about photography.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Never
  • Photography
  • Read

• I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • School
  • Teaching
  • Arts

• Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Body
  • Walking
  • Repetition

• I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listening

• I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Past
  • Football
  • Difficult

• I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

  

  Walter Legge
  • Arts
  • Useless
  • Committees

• When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Difficult

• I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Done
  • Guy

• It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Language
  • Difficult

• I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Country
  • Think
  • Difficult

• I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Science

• I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Father

• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Society
  • Walking

• I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• 'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Overcome
  • Adapt
  • Motto

• I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Perspective
  • Musician
  • Hours

• I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Walking
  • Difficult
  • Photography