Alvarez Bravo Quotes

#1. I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.

Lola Alvarez Bravo

#2. The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#3. If my photos have any value, it's because they show a Mexico that no longer exists.

Lola Alvarez Bravo

#4. To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

Wallace D. Wattles

#5. It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

Anne Lamott

#6. I just get the will to do it. I don't plan a photograph in advance ... I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not by the head but by the eyes. Eventually inspiration comes-instinct is the same as inspiration, and eventually it comes.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#7. I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#8. Shoot what you see, not what you think.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#9. I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

Catherynne M Valente

#10. If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.

Lola Alvarez Bravo

#11. Be fruitful, and multiply.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. I'm very Belgian, and I will die Belgian. I just have my house in the north of France because I began my career in Paris, even though I don't live there anymore.

Cecile De France

#13. When you design a collection, you have to start with what you love and what you believe in. Unless you do that, you can't stand behind it, so there's no point in doing it.

Sarah Burton

#14. There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#15. I give the moment permanence.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#16. A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#17. Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.

Idries Shah

#18. I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#19. I had been interested in science from when I was very young, but after a disastrous summer lab experience in which every experiment I tried failed, I decided on graduating from college that I was not cut out to be a scientist.

Martin Chalfie