Caponigro Photographer Quotes

#1. We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

John Paul Caponigro

#2. The best plans evolve.

John Paul Caponigro

#3. Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

John Paul Caponigro

#4. Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.

John Paul Caponigro

#5. All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.

Paul Caponigro

#6. Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

John Paul Caponigro

#7. Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context and supplemental information to confirm our observations, not simply the documents themselves.

John Paul Caponigro

#8. My mantra is, 'This or something better.'

John Paul Caponigro

#9. The frame frames a frame of mind.

John Paul Caponigro

#10. I'm too sexy for my cape...

Kerrelyn Sparks

#11. When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!

Kenneth Eade

#12. A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#13. If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

Sue Johanson

#14. A man's character is best described in his epitaph

Marilyn L. Rice

#15. Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.

John Paul Caponigro

#16. Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?

Paul Caponigro

#17. How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?

John Paul Caponigro

#18. I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

David Levithan

#19. The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

Paul Caponigro

#20. One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

Siegfried Lenz

#21. Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people.

Philip Selway

#22. I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own experiences of living - will always have a Hero and a Heroine, a Fairy Godmother and a Wicked Witch.

Lucinda Riley

#23. He looked like a normal gorgeous young man, who was at home here amidst all this wealth. Like the heir to a fortune. Highborn.
And still, my first impulse was to stab him with a table knife.

Kresley Cole

#24. Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.

John Paul Caponigro

#25. A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

John Paul Caponigro

#26. We see the world through our experience.

John Paul Caponigro

#27. Don't ask 'Should I ... ?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ... ?'

John Paul Caponigro

#28. Seek freedom within action.

Paul Caponigro

#29. It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.

John Paul Caponigro

#30. Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.

Brigitte Nielsen

#31. We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible.

Louis De Broglie

#32. I use my music to tune myself.

Paul Caponigro

#33. As for the French language, it's probably one of the most beautiful in the world. I speak a little bit and I can follow conversations, but I think it will take time to improve myself.

Charlene, Princess Of Monaco

#34. Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.

Francis Bacon