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.

Margaret Bourke-White

• Persons
• Humans
• Photography
• Wanted
• Unusual
• Printed

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• Alaska itself is an unusual state.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Unusual
  • Itself
  • Alaska

• I never read about photography.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Never
  • Photography
  • Read

• The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Time
  • Play
  • Wanted

• 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.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Wife
  • Story
  • Wanted

• I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Famous
  • Wanted

• I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Like
  • Painting
  • Photography

• Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Change
  • Photography
  • Finding

• When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • America
  • Dad
  • Wanted

• I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Information
  • Photography

• I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Writer

• I wanted to play baseball!

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Play
  • Baseball
  • Wanted

• 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.

  

  Berenice Abbott
  • People
  • Sick
  • Photography

• 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.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Movie
  • Photography

• 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.

  

  Jesse Johnson
  • Music
  • Different
  • Important

• I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.

  

  Don McCullin
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Photography

• 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.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Nature
  • Responsibility
  • Photography

• Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Life
  • Photography

• The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is.

  

  Keiichi Sigsawa
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Therefore

• Jesu, the very thought of Thee With sweetness fills the breast.

  

  Edward Caswall
  • Sweetness
  • Breast

• When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis - the thought doesn't occur to him that 'There is someone better than me,' or 'There is someone equal to me,' or 'There is someone worse than me.'

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Goal
  • Destroyed
  • Task

• 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.

  

  Margaret Bourke-White
  • Persons
  • Humans
  • Photography