Boubat Quotes

#1. You do, eh? No one can really know what an immigrant has been through. What pain. What sacrifices. Once you remember that, the better." He held his gaze on Conor

Gordon Henderson

#2. Surreal. It was his word of the week. This must be one of the circles of hell Dante accidentally left off the list.

Cherie Priest

#3. Actually, I think living's the worst habit.

Stephen King

#4. You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.

Edouard Boubat

#5. Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping.

Fernando Pessoa

#6. I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it.

Edouard Boubat

#7. There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity ... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well.

Edouard Boubat

#8. Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could buy postcards which show them much better.

Edouard Boubat

#9. Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.

Edouard Boubat

#10. I'm very Canadian. I want everyone to love me, and I just get nervous.

Tracy Spiridakos

#11. To live, to experience the world, to communicate with a camera, all these are interrelated and cannot be separated from everyday live.

Edouard Boubat

#12. Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.

Edouard Boubat

#13. Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error.

Edouard Boubat

#14. In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

Bruce Beresford

#15. The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it.

Edouard Boubat

#16. You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

James Tiptree Jr.

#17. Above all, learn to breathe correctly.

Joseph Pilates

#18. In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is consenting. With a photograph it's the same: always stolen, and still slightly consenting.

Edouard Boubat

#19. At some point he has to show that he has a vision of a better way. He can't just say 'The future is bleak, follow me.' Because no one will.

Mark McKinnon

#20. There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things. A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world.

Edouard Boubat

#21. Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

John Barth

#22. Nowadays, photographers start out with ideas, and their photos become the expression of an idea. To my way of thinking, a photo should not depend on ideas, should go beyond ideas.

Edouard Boubat

#23. Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

Rick Yancey

#24. The miracle left him dumbfounded, that his heart had not yet shirked its weary task of pumping his bored blood through his brain.

Janny Wurts

#25. The most recent was my match against Daniel Bryan at Fastlane. He kicked my scar from my recent hernia surgery. That was painful. I needed to take a step back from training that next day!

Roman Reigns

#26. The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books.

Edouard Boubat

#27. Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

Bill Bryson

#28. Because I know war ... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it ... After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this ...

Edouard Boubat

#29. To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.

Edouard Boubat