Alvin Coburn Quotes

#1. A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#2. Love is the innermost energy, innermost fire which wants to come out always and spread all over.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.

Hermann Weyl

#4. Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

Wole Soyinka

#5. Whether he'll follow some gaudy, hysterical leader who'll promise rashly to fill the void in him, or whether he'll come to an understanding with the millions of his kindred fellow workers under trade-union or revolutionary guidance depends upon the future drift of events in America. But,

Richard Wright

#6. I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#7. This is the great adventure and the great discovery. No one can do it for us. Until we have reached the top of the mountain we cannot see in full glory the view that lies beyond; but glimpses of light illumine our path to the mountain.

Juan Mascaro

#8. The great doing of little things, makes the great life.

Eugenia Price

#9. I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.

Viggo Mortensen

#10. I've got to find Holmes."
"I guess that means you haven't heard. Oh, Jamie, I didn't want to be the one to tell you. But there's been an accident. A horrible, horrible accident.

Brittany Cavallaro

#11. It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Stein on Writing

Sol Stein

#12. Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#13. Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#14. An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#15. We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

J. William Fulbright

#16. I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#17. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off.

Cassandra Clare

#18. For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It welcomes every loosening of the social fabric, every confusion and affliction visited upon the world, for passion sees in such a disorder a vague hope of finding advantage for itself.

Thomas Mann

#19. It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#20. My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#21. You make me forget who I'm not.

Aleksandr Voinov

#22. The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.

Charles Spurgeon

#23. We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners.

Blake Mycoskie