Bernd Becher Quotes

#1. Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.

Bernd Becher

#2. Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.

George R R Martin

#3. It doesn't matter how much you plan, you'll still get some stuff wrong anyway. Don't make things worse by overanalyzing and delaying before you even get going.

Jason Fried

#4. All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.

Bernd Becher

#5. The question if this is a work of art or not is not very interesting for us. Probably it is situated in between the established categories. Anyway the audience which is interested in art would be the most open-minded and willing to think about it.

Bernd Becher

#6. I have friends in different parts of the world, and they'll all go online at the same time and all pull up a movie and hit play, at the same moment, and then they'll comment to each other about it. They're sharing an experience, even though they're on different parts of the planet.

J. Michael Straczynski

#7. When someone discovers something in their lives that really interests them, then they should be content with doing that - without having to go and lie on a beach once a year.

Bernd Becher

#8. The theologian remembers for the sake of hope.

Craig Keen

#9. Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

Dean Koontz

#10. I know now that my avatar all along has been closer to Lisa Simpson than anyone else.

Tori Amos

#11. Maybe it's because I can't have him that I feel safe wanting him. He's beyond my reach, so he won't hurt me.

Tess Gerritsen

#12. I never felt more free in this world, than when I was five years old

Jeremy Aldana

#13. Ultimately, the people [who] are going to help you make your film are the people who believe in you and believe in the story. And as long as you stick to your guns, hopefully what you come out with will be what you imagined.

Dee Rees

#14. We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to monumentalize the object. This was exploited in terms of a socialistic view - a fresh view of the world, a new man, a new beginning.

Bernd Becher

#15. Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.

Thad Cochran

#16. If Love is Pure, Love is Simple

Pawan Painjane

#17. Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

Abraham Lincoln

#18. You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.

Jim Wallis

#19. He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#20. The United Nations had to be the cornerstone of our foreign policy.

Joseph P. Lash

#21. This is about objects, not motifs. The photo is only a substitute for an object; it is unsuitable as a picture in its customary sense.

Bernd Becher