Margaret Bourke-White Quotes
Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.
Quotes to Explore
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Alaska itself is an unusual state.
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I never read about photography.
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When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
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I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
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Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
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When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.
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I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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I wanted to play baseball!
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People say they have to express their emotions. I’m sick of that. Photography doesn’t teach you how to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.
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I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.
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Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
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Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.
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Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.
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Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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All I ever wanted to do was act.
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I think the worst part is that when you know you dream another person's dream, you can never truly feel at peace. Never truly trust yourself. If you carry around somebody else's nightmare, who knows what else your insides might hide or when it might come out?
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The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human beings on earth. The challenge is to make women believe in their power. "Woman as victim" is an idea whose time has passed. The idea of woman as a survivor and a success must take its place.
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I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.
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This is one time where the choir out-numbers the audience.
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Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.
