Top 31 Whitney Otto Quotes
#1. But she never knew what it was like to walk away from the thing she had most wanted. Years later she would say, Photography allowed me to make the world and be in the world.
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#2. She remembered her fingers threaded through his hair and his kisses in places that made her long for him years later.
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#3. Money buys things that people with money never even realize they've bought, like time and freedom.
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#4. The images enhanced, then negated each other. Nothing was fixed. Nothing is any one thing really, and isn't that the beauty of it all?
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#5. The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize what you do not want. You have to spend so much time and energy trying to find it out, time that other people spent in pursuing of their desires.
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#6. You have to choose your combinations careful. The right choices will enhance your quilt. The wrong choices will dull the colors and hide their original beauty. There are no rules you can follow. You have to go by instinct and you have to be brave.
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#8. I have an affection for those transitional seasons, the way they take the edge off the intense cold of winter, or heat of summer.
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#9. She believed, as others did, that a camera was good for more than recording the world. A photograph wasn't a response to something; it was something.
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#10. That is the true challenge
to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate.
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#11. While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.
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#12. Once you love, you cannot take it back, cannot undo it; what you felt may have changed, shifted slightly, yet still remains love. You still feel-though very small-the not-altogether unpleasant shock of soul recognition for that person.
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#13. The worst dream of the night, when you are parted from someone you love and you do not know exactly where he is, but you know that he is in the presence of danger. You are tormented by a desire to keep the one you love safe.
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#14. ... she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.
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#15. Later, Jenny would say she seldom knew what she would take a picture of when she picked up a camera, that she only knew once she peered through the viewfinder, as if the photograph had finally found her.
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#16. If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine and not an avenue of expression, then he has no business asking anyone for anything, let alone their time and interest. Don't show the world, he said, invent the world.
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#17. No one knows how another person feels in private.
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#18. If I photograph you in the shadows, you become mysterious, perhaps unknowable. If I light you from above, so your eyelashes throw shadows on your cheeks, you could be a Hollywood film star.
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#19. I once started out
to walk around the world
but ended up with you.
Thank God.
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#20. What no one tells you about having children is that it isn't tbe physical demand thry make in your life that affects your art, it's the emotional space they fill, crowding out your art. So even when you have the time to work, you're still mentally occupied.
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#21. ... that would be too much like running away, and that, she would not do. She does not run - they cannot make her - she walks.
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#22. Read "The Story of O." Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.
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#23. All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.
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#24. I never think anyone in love is foolish. We do the best we can.
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#25. All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss.
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#27. She is admired from afar. These admirers court her in secret, in the safety of their dreams.
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#28. Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.
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#29. Don't panic. If you write, you'll be a writer.
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#30. Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal.
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#31. These things are not glorified, just recorded. Tattooed on the heart; burned into the family's history. This piecing together of the life of your child; this homage, this attempt to put it all in order; and even though you will one day wish for the heartbreak to leave you, it never will.
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