August Sander Quotes

#1. When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is really the only one. Had I known then the work of people like Ken Russell, Vivian Maier, Helen Levitt, and Steven Berkoff, they would undoubtedly have influenced me too.

Derek Ridgers

#2. Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.

August Sander

#3. It was easy to forget that
sometimes, when they were laughing together, or kissing. But then one of them would say something, or do something, and he would suddenly be reminded of the wall between their worlds.

George R R Martin

#4. By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

August Sander

#5. If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

Nipsey Hussle

#6. Who's to say what's evil? A man's beliefs are his own business. Neither the Church nor anybody else has the right to tell you how to act; that's what real freedom is about: to be able to be who you really are, not what you are expected or supposed to be.

Richard Ramirez

#7. I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.

August Sander

#8. Photography has no dark sides!

August Sander

#9. I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that if you have those sorts of backgrounds you don't impose them on other people as a clinician, of course.

Robert Winston

#10. In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

August Sander

#11. Eyes on me, baby," he commanded on a harsh breath. "always on me!

Raine Miller

#12. No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.

August Sander

#13. I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.

August Sander

#14. Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

August Sander

#15. In LA you can't tell the teenagers and the moms apart, which is so strange to me. And then it's like, "Who is leading who?" Are the moms emulating the daughters? In which case we're going backwards - that's not how it goes - the mothers teach the daughters how to be. It's a very strange thing to me.

Laura Benanti

#16. Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

August Sander

#17. I'll always remember the day Daddy took me on a journey . . . the day history was made with one million men and me.

Kelly Starling Lyons

#18. Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age

August Sander

#19. Mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of a second of that person's life-time. That's a very meager or small extract from a life.

August Sander