Allan Sekula Quotes

#1. One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

James Levine

#3. Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.

Janette Rallison

#4. National honor is the national property of the highest value.

James Monroe

#5. Happiness lies within the heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?

Allan Sekula

#7. I nod seriously, "Supes."
"You're mocking me."
"A little bit."
"People say supes!"
"What people?"
"I can't believe you're shaming me right now. I'm very sensitive about my use of cool vernacular."
"Then we're good. Because you haven't used any." I flash a grin.

Lauren Miller

#8. People always say to me
"What do you think you'd like to be
When you grow up?"
And I say, "Why,
I think I'd like to be the sky
Or be a plane or train or mouse
Or maybe a haunted house
Or something furry, rough and wild...
Or maybe I will stay a child.

Karla Kuskin

#9. As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?

Nicholas Hoult

#10. I'm not opposed to nude scenes, if they're appropriate. I'm not against them morally. But I personally no longer find movie nudity to be worth my while.

Amber Heard

#11. Mind games to me are overrated.

Scott Brooks

#12. Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

Allan Sekula

#13. My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.

Lorraine Toussaint

#14. The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

Juan Williams

#15. Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet ... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.

Allan Sekula

#16. The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something ... was somewhere and took a picture.

Allan Sekula

#17. The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.

Allan Sekula

#18. Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

Allan Sekula

#19. I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.

Manolo Blahnik

#20. The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

Allan Sekula

#21. There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

Joe Biden

#22. Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

Allan Sekula

#23. To be certain you're consuming the real deal, look carefully at the label. W-h-i-s-k-e-y indicates the heavenly liquid from the Emerald Isle. Without the "e," it's from Scotland or some other godforsaken place.

Rashers Tierney