Top 16 Bassman Quotes
#1. Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.
Margaret Atwood
#2. In the end, this armor is my skin. If it is damaged, I am damaged.
Aleksandr Voinov
#3. To run the world, you had to find it in yourself to grit your teeth and just fake it. Just stare them down, never back off.
Bruce Sterling
#5. I was offered Fagin-type roles, but I wanted to do new things. I could have worked in America, but there was a recession in the British film industry, and I wanted to work in England. I've no regrets.
Ron Moody
#6. Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.
Holly Near
#8. There's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service, Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself Whether I in any just term
William Shakespeare
#9. I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.
Lillian Bassman
#10. Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.
Lillian Bassman
#11. I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera. Someone who does this wonderfully well is Lena Dunham.
Kevin Systrom
#12. [When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be.
Lillian Bassman
#13. The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing.
Lillian Bassman
#14. My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
Ed Asner
#15. It was sexually a very different thing when [the models] worked with men. They felt a charge ... I caught them when they were relaxed, natural, and I spent a lot of time talking to them about their husbands, their lovers, their babies.
Lillian Bassman
#16. Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through worship, broader through ministry, and larger through evangelism.
Rick Warren
