Depardon Quotes

#1. I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.

Raymond Depardon

#2. We are only the trustees for those who come after us.

William Morris

#3. Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour.

Hilary Mantel

#4. Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.

Urijah Faber

#5. When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done, and Pennebaker answered, Nothing except shots in the street. Dylan asked to see them, and he agreed to let him do the film.

Raymond Depardon

#6. On the mantelpiece, the photograph of a chimpanzee and a statuette of the Buddha. This proximity, more accidental than intentional, makes me wonder over and over where my place might be between these two extrems, man's pre and transfiguration.

Cioran

#7. I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.

Raymond Depardon

#8. The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.

Raymond Depardon

#9. The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs.

Raymond Depardon

#10. My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.

Steven Soderbergh

#11. Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless,

Nick Denton

#12. The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another's customs and opinions; respect for one another's rights and feelings; awareness of one another's needs.

A.J. Ayer

#13. Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave against the rocks of her intelligence. Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

Karen Russell

#14. There is no problem for which the instruction to love more is not the solution.

Kathleen McGowan

#15. It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer

Raymond Depardon

#16. I like to be on my own when I look at my contact sheets, because I'm often disappointed ... But as years go by we become proud of our old contact sheets. They are a tool that allows us to fight against time.

Raymond Depardon

#17. I suggest in my own discussion of this episode, Mann invites us to set the attempt to philosophize about his predicament in the context of Aschenbach's life. The literary presentation thus adds to the naked philosophical skeleton.

Philip Kitcher

#18. I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

Sachin Tendulkar

#19. I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.

Raymond Depardon