David Burnett Quotes

#1. David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

Terry Southern

#2. I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

David Burnett

#3. I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without ... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

Socrates

#4. The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.

David Burnett

#5. In my small, coastal New England town, an hour outside New York, I know many people who have dealt with cancer. I can reel off the names of at least 15 women I know, all in their 40s.

Jane Green

#6. The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of the "idea" he has dug for himself.

Daido Moriyama

#7. It's a given your family will be tired of being photographed, but don't give up. In another couple of decades, those are the pictures you will be glad to have.

David Burnett

#8. When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.

David Burnett

#9. Shooting film is not for everybody, but if you're crazy enough it might be for you.

David Burnett

#10. War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

David Burnett

#11. We get one life, Mara. You might live forever and I might die tomorrow, but right now we're both here. And I want to spend the time I have with you.

Michelle Hodkin

#12. I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.

David Burnett

#13. Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.

David Burnett

#14. But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.

Steve Spurrier

#15. The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.

John Henry Cox

#16. The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.

David Burnett

#17. I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

David Burnett

#18. Reports that online cognitive behavioral treatment can be as effective as in-person psychotherapy suggest that technology will expand access, extend the impact of a therapist, and expedite treatment for people who might not find 'seeing' a therapist acceptable.

Thomas R. Insel

#19. The fact that I have a little ten-megapixel camera with me all the time, is way better than having the greatest camera in the world sitting at home on a desk instead of on my shoulder.

David Burnett

#20. You saw me through a stained-glass window? How'd you pull that off'
'I could find someone as beautiful as you no matter where you hide. You're so radiant, I bet you even glow in the dark.

Josephine Angelini

#21. DAVID SHIELDS: Salinger told Whit Burnett... that on D-Day he was carrying six chapters of 'The Catcher in the Rye', that he needed those pages with him not only as an amulet to help him survive but as a reason to survive.

Shane Salerno

#22. The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks ... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.

Bell Hooks

#23. The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

David Burnett

#24. Lady Gaga is proof that David Bowie raped Carol Burnett!

Christopher Titus