Bill Brandt Quotes

#1. The beginning of 2015 marked a turning point for China's real estate market; land sales in both volume and proceeds plunged by 30 percent compared to the prior year.

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#2. You don't have to be strong, because the strength is in you; it's in your DNA, in your soul and your essence.

Bryant McGill

#3. I needed to mourn my father, that wonderful, sweet, gentle man.

Kristan Higgins

#4. A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic.

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#5. Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

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#6. Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.

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#7. It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

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#8. It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.

Grimes

#9. The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

Bill Brandt

#10. Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

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#11. I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

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#12. The only music minister to whom the Lord will say, 'Well done, thy good and faithful servant,' is the one whose life proves what their lyrics are saying, and to whom music is the least important part of their life. Glorifying the only worthy One has to be a minister's most important goal!

Keith Green

#13. When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed.

Bill Brandt

#14. It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

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#15. Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all ... You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond all the definitions of love you've ever had. A certain richness happens only later in life. I guess its' a kind of mellowing. p 80
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Elizabeth Berg

#16. I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

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#17. But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this, for unless he finds what it is that excites him, what it is that calls forth at once an emotional response, he is unlikely to achieve his best work.

Bill Brandt

#18. By the time Bones announced it was Tammy's turn, I'd fallen in love with him all over again. Flowers and jewelry worked for most girls as a romantic gesture, but here I was, misty-eyed at watching him show my mother how to stab the shit out of him.

Jeaniene Frost

#19. I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Zora Neale Hurston

#20. A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

Bill Brandt

#21. No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.

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#22. Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

Bill Brandt

#23. Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

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#24. And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.

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#25. If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.

Bill Brandt

#26. Did you know that there is a condition that appears before any sort of pain, diseases and disorder? It is simpler than you can imagine right now. My dear friend, that condition very much exists, it is very real. In simple words we can call it the 'weak flow of Chi' (life energy).

William Lee

#27. Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.

Bill Brandt

#28. In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

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#29. The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.

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#30. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

Calvin Coolidge