Margaret Bourke-White Quotes
Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
-
Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
-
I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.
-
I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
-
It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
-
Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.
-
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
-
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
-
'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.
-
I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.
-
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
-
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
-
My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'
-
I don't fetishize objects.
-
The industrialized countries that came to dominate post-slavery have caused the climate to change.
-
At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.
-
As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
-
Even when I went to the Lion's Head in the Village, where all you journalists would hang out, I was always peripheral. I was never really part of anything except the classroom. That's where I belonged.
-
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
-
The minute you get cast, you worry they've made the most terrible mistake. There's a really awkward stage between being hired and doing the job when it doesn't feel real.
-
Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education.
-
I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story 'greater than the sum of its parts.'
-
I feel very lucky. I don't know what else there has to be. I'm happy, as corny as it sounds, to be living in a place where it's easy to live, easy to drive to the airport, easy to go pick up something at the supermarket and to have a circle of friends. Those were my goals in 1998, not to be queen of photography but to make a cultural adjustment to the West. And those are still more important goals to me than professional ones right now.
-
Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.
