Bruce Barnbaum Quotes

#1. I always feel it's necessary to look at my images from two distances. Here is my criterion: If I can look at it from a distance and then come up close but find nothing more to see, it's printed too large. It's not giving me any new information when I come up to it.

Bruce Barnbaum

#2. If nothing else, the Internet allows people to put their ideas out there and let the world decide whether they're worth paying attention to.

Alex Steffen

#3. A slave can have life only by giving it away. "He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." (Jesus)

James P. Carse

#4. Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I've got to tell you the facts.

Carter Dickson

#5. There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to find the task of photographing it difficult.

Bruce Barnbaum

#6. We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?

Neil Postman

#7. Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

Stendhal

#8. I think that's necessary in photography. We try to simplify the chaos that's out there - and that's true of the natural world as well as the mad-made world. Clearly, it's easier in the mad-made world because it has already been structured.

Bruce Barnbaum

#9. I have always thought that being a good American is appreciating the world, not just your own country.

Johnny Weir

#10. The scene has not been composed, but merely selected

Bruce Barnbaum

#11. Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.

Bruce Barnbaum

#12. Why is the 'average man' so far below average?

Bruce Barnbaum

#13. I guess it's not the plan that counts, but the words in which the plan is wrapped. Semantics count for everything, and it's obvious that the resolute Republicans are better at semantics than the weak, flip-flopping Democrats.

Bruce Barnbaum

#14. Thinking too much leads to paralysis by analysis. It's important to think things through, but many use thinking as a means of avoiding action.

Robert Herjavec

#15. I looked around and it was like I was seeing everything frozen into a still photograph, like I was seeing my whole life but in one of those shots you look and later think, Yeah, that's what it was like, once upon a time. Once upon a time ago.

Anna Quindlen

#16. Unhappy people are dangerous.

Rebecca West