Top 12 Desnoes Quotes
#1. Sincerity, authenticity, integrity, mutual understanding - these and other sources of moral wealth are destroyed the moment we deliberately misrepresent our beliefs, whether or not our lies are ever discovered.
Sam Harris
#2. Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.
Edmundo Desnoes
#3. Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.
Edmundo Desnoes
#4. Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives ... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.
Edmundo Desnoes
#5. I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
Kate Christensen
#6. Photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.
Edmundo Desnoes
#7. I probably wouldn't have been fearless enough to go on such a trip with so little money if I hadn't grown up without it.
Cheryl Strayed
#8. Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.
Edmundo Desnoes
#10. The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests itself fundamentally through the image is only a few steps from totalitarian manipulation.
Edmundo Desnoes
#11. Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.
Edmundo Desnoes
#12. The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
