Beat Streuli Quotes

#1. I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene. And, anyway, every image only halfway represents reality, whereas the other half is rather, more or less, fulfilling our imagination.

Beat Streuli

#2. Why is it that the people who know how to enjoy themselves never have any money and the people who have money never know how to enjoy themselves?

George Bernard Shaw

#3. My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.

Beat Streuli

#4. At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to be part of the other, the outside world: the impossibility of ever being able to get beneath another person's skin.

Beat Streuli

#5. My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in.

Otto Skorzeny

#6. A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

Charles Lamb

#7. Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

George Polya

#8. It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

Oliver Goldsmith