Arnold Newman Quotes

#1. I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.

John Sexton

#2. The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#3. I am very down to earth and practical.

Ashley Olsen

#4. She was an anchor but at least now she knew it had an end, a stopping place. It hit bottom. She could fall no deeper.

Linda Hogan

#5. The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

Arnold Newman

#6. Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

Arnold Newman

#7. Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. We don't take pictures with cameras, we take them with our hearts and minds.

Arnold Newman

#9. It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every human being that it is impossible to present them all in one photograph.

Arnold Newman

#10. Jesus says, "No one takes My life from Me. I lay it down" (John 10:18).

Matt Chandler

#11. I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

Arnold Newman

#12. Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

Arnold Newman

#13. I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane)

Rachel Caine

#14. A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

Arnold Newman

#15. We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

Douglas Coupland

#16. I don't care what you do with that negative, you can retouch it, you can spit on it, you can grind it underfoot. The only thing that matters is if it is honest. If [the picture] is honest, you and everybody can tell. If it is dishonest, you and everybody can tell.

Arnold Newman

#17. I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer man reveals. The inner man is seldom revealed to anyone, sometimes not even the man himself.

Arnold Newman

#18. We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves ... wha t we are and what we think.

Arnold Newman

#19. There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

Arnold Newman

#20. We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

Arnold Newman

#21. The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.

Arnold Newman

#22. The future is certain for those who follow dharma. Those who don't follow dharma are pushed back again and again into the net of rebirth. They are drawn back to the same planes of attention, or lower. It could happen to you!

Frederick Lenz

#23. Writing is a unique art-form. You are painting a detailed image in someone's mind, and it will be different for every single reader.

Giuseppe Bianco

#24. Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

Arnold Newman

#25. There were times, many, many times, when she just didn't get him. She'd heard on numerous occasions that men were bad, wicked creatures, who'd do terrible things at a moment's notice. You wore the wrong skirt or bent over at an inopportune time and BAM. They slipped their penises into you.

Charlotte Stein

#26. the strong opinions I entertained against the marriage of first cousins,

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#27. The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.

Bai Ling

#28. I didn't set out to do something different so much as do something that interested me. I wasn't trying to be avant-garde - that's being fashionable. You don't set out to revolutionize art, you make statements for yourself.

Arnold Newman

#29. Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

Arnold Newman