Michael Lesy Quotes

#1. My idea of a good job would be to be paid really well to sit on my ass all day to look at pictures.

Michael Lesy

#2. Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.

Michael Lesy

#3. Cameras don't take pictures, people take pictures.

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#4. The choice, though, is not between scrupulous obedience and ecstatic abandon. The choice runs right down the middle. If you really want to know how to fly, you need to know how to walk.

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#5. By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time ... but as goad to memory, it is often the first integer in a sequence of recollections that has the power to deny time for the sake of love.

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#6. For years and years and years ... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain.

Michael Lesy