Brodovitch Art Quotes

#1. We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. if at first you dont succeed quit and let God take over

Tim Stone

#3. I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

Shirley Manson

#4. Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.

Gerry Mulligan

#5. I'm so personally attached to all the characters I met and photographed over the years ... the anthology is like a photographic reliquary that could potentially preserve their grace, fierce joy, and restlessness.

Hedi Slimane

#6. Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for inspiration and not for imitation. These works should be something to be built upon, not to be repeated.

Alexey Brodovitch

#7. But work that's got real substance does make people feel, "There's someone else out there who relates to my experience, or who just helped me understand my own experience a little bit better." And I think that's still got enormous value.

Edward Norton

#8. Those who know the least obey the best.

George Farquhar

#9. He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key.

Kerry Greenwood