Beaumont Newhall Quotes

#1. I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.

Johnny Depp

#2. She would not allow someone for whom she had so little regard to have a negative effect on her mood at the start of a new week. -Pardonable Lies

Jacqueline Winspear

#3. As you are now you are just a liquid phenomenon, changing every moment, nothing stable. Really you cannot claim any "I"
you don't have one. You are many "I"s just in a flow, a riverlike flow. You are a crowd, not an individual yet. But meditation can make you an individual.

Rajneesh

#4. The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

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#5. Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

Rose Of Lima

#6. We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

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#7. It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

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#8. There's going to be a lesbian Brokeback Mountain and it's going to star Beyonce and Eva Longoria,

Chris McDaniel

#9. When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

Paul Gauguin

#10. If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

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#11. Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and the unfamiliar. His photographs, seen by millions, make momentary events and strange occurrences all over the world our common property.

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#12. I agree strongly that no story is more valuable than someone's life.

Hark-Joon Lee

#13. How could you ever learn to trust the things you made up?

Richard Yates

#14. The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.

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#15. Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer - a record of things seen and experienced, moments in the flow of time, documents of significance to me, experiments in seeing.

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#16. Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

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