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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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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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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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.
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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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To be able to see in concrete terms what was created in a fraction of a second is a rare luxury. Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode – from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage – the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.
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You know Marques Houston, you know I'm a dancer, I'm a singer, but I wouldn't want to do a movie that I'm a dancer and a singer in. I want to do movies that people can take me more seriously in as an actor, because when you're making that transition, it is tough.
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I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.
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I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.
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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.
