David Duchemin Quotes

#1. The magic rarely happens within our comfort zone, but outside it, on the ragged, scary edge, where we have to fight like hell to keep from drowning in the unknown.

David DuChemin

#2. One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact that everyone knows. We can't eliminate the deficit without raising some revenue ... They're wusses.

Ed Rendell

#3. Photographers, like few other kinds of artists I can imagine, have an insanely
personal relationship with their gear.

David DuChemin

#4. As long as we're alive and interacting with life, the world, and the people around us, we'll have something to say.

David DuChemin

#5. To do what we should in art is bondage. To tell others, with our art, what they should think or feel or do, is propaganda.

David DuChemin

#6. Consider this your permission to indulge that inner anarchist. Stop following the path you ought to take; follow instead the one you long to take.

David DuChemin

#7. Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come to bear.

David DuChemin

#8. Bruce Percy, a brilliant landscape photographer, once said to me, "You can't polish a turd." Wise words.

David DuChemin

#9. I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia.

Peter Benchley

#10. Slow down, take time, allow yourself to be wildly diverted from your plan. People are the soul of the place; don't forget to meet them and enjoy their company as you explore a place.

David DuChemin

#11. A photograph can communicate a couple things - and sometimes only one thing - very well. The more you try to say with your photograph, the greater the chance that you will say nothing at all.

David DuChemin

#12. Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.

David DuChemin

#13. For millennia our suffering has been the forge in which great art has been made and great lives have been lived.

David DuChemin

#14. If it's dirty, it's not funny, but if it's funny, it's not dirty.

Buddy Hackett

#15. It's funny. When we first started hanging out I didn't want Ashley to think I was a pig, so I was careful not to eat too much in front of her ... Now, I don't even think about it.

Natasha Friend

#16. The real failure is to rob this world of the contribution only you can make, and to fail to make work that truly gives you that 'this is what I was created to do' feeling that has no equal.

David DuChemin

#17. A representational photograph says, 'This is what Vienna looked like.' An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, 'This is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it.

David DuChemin

#18. Vision is that original spark that was ignited within you and made you pick up a camera to capture whatever it is you saw, that made you turn to shout "Did you see that!" only to find no one there
so you created an image to do the telling.

David DuChemin

#19. You yourself are unique
you have ways of seeing your world that are unlike those of anyone else
so find ways to more faithfully express that, and your style will emerge.

David DuChemin

#20. Much that is natural, to the will must yield.
Men manufacture both machine and soul,
And use what they imperfectly control
To dare a future from the taken routes.

Thom Gunn

#21. Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon.

Dermot Davis

#22. I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner.

Gloria Steinem

#23. Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown.

David DuChemin

#24. I dream big dreams every day; it's up to the universe to keep up.

David DuChemin

#25. Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.

David DuChemin

#26. On the odd days Auto Tone gets it right I assume it's using some kind of voodoo.

David DuChemin

#27. It is the daily task of the creative to be curious and collect dots. The most creative people I know fill their brains, their idea factories, with as much raw material as they can. They have voracious appetites.

David DuChemin

#28. I don't even own a cell phone.

Jack Nicholson

#29. The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

Vik Muniz

#30. You are responsible for every element within the frame.

David DuChemin

#31. The second way to control the light is with the aperture in the lens, which is a diaphragm that opens and closes to control the light. It's measured in cryptic little numbers that only mathematicians and practitioners of the occult understand.

David DuChemin

#32. Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.

Alan Furst

#33. The earth doesn't care where death occurs ... It's the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking a photograph of it, that makes the earth powerful and creates death's memory. Because the land will not remember by itself, but the artist will.

Sally Mann

#34. Travis' expression was a mixture of surprise and gratitude. "Now I've seen it all. I was just defended by a girl," he said, standing up.

Jamie McGuire