Top 18 Joyce Tenneson Quotes

#1. Our best pictures happen by grace.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #269434
#2. I found that I wanted to be best friends with almost all the women I interviewed because they had been through something. They were closing in on the circle of their journey and they had a kind of wisdom that comes from their long life.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #646865
#3. If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was A Secret Garden.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #824115
#4. Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I had loved and appreciated my whole life. I offer these photographs with the hope that they will open a new visual or meditative universe for you as well.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #875510
#5. I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work is very much who I am. I didn't try to make it that way; it just is. It reflects who I am and also my interests.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #903794
#6. I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take a break, never eat. I'm focused on getting that moment of revelation, of insight, of poignancy, of meaning.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #1054257
#7. I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #1076043
#8. Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #1229639
#9. I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #1263018
#10. I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #1323459
#11. I very strongly believe that if you go back to your roots, if you mine that inner territory, you can bring out something that is indelibly you and authentic - like your thumbprint. It's going to have your style because there is no one like you.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #1390878
#12. I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #1406286
#13. If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how my best images appear. That excitement and shock of discovery makes my life at these moments a gift.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #1406425
#14. Find the one thing you're good at and FOCUS on it.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #1418097
#15. I want to allow others to reveal and celebrate aspects of themselves that are usually hidden. My camera is a witness. It holds a light up for my subjects to help them feel their own essence, and gives them the courage to collaborate in the recording of these revelations.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #1534938
#16. The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #1706000
#17. I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #1786322
#18. I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull caps or cowls to banish hair, which is distracting. I want to isolate the face and concentrate on what is really going on deep within my subjects.

Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson Quotes #1874089

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top