Fred Ritchin Quotes

#1. No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.

Isaac Babel

#2. We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of professionals. We valued it for what it could tell us about the details of people's daily lives.

Fred Ritchin

#3. He looked at her in complete devotion. "We made a little baby ... "
She smiled and giggled. "It wasn't that hard either, was it?"
"I don't know about you but I was working pretty hard.

Pepper Pace

#4. Appreciate every little beautiful moment in every day of your life. Give it a try and you'll see the world from another perspective.

Thea Kristine May

#5. I know it sounds cliche, but to give back is important. Sometimes we're given so much, we need to do something for other people. I think that's really important.

Stefanie Scott

#6. The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.

Fred Ritchin

#7. As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.

Henry Rollins

#8. Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

Natalie Morales

#9. If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

Ruta Sepetys

#10. Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative.

Fred Ritchin

#11. The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

Fred Ritchin

#12. There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required.

Fred Ritchin

#13. One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

Fred Ritchin

#14. There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and not just reactively, and whose approach is multi-faceted. We need more "useful photographers."

Fred Ritchin

#15. That's what they do, psychopaths. They figure out your language, your currency, your needs, your dreams and fears. Then they figure out how to use those things to get what they want from you. Most

Lisa Unger

#16. We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking at entry points to information and to the world in which the image was made.

Fred Ritchin

#17. Many who are making cellphone images are advocates with a stake in the outcome of what they are depicting. In some ways this makes their work more honest and easier to read - they can also manipulate, although the work of professionals can be quite manipulative as well.

Fred Ritchin

#18. I know absolutely nothing about music.

Richard Wagner

#19. Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.

Fred Ritchin

#20. I don't understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it's all I've ever wanted.
All I've ever known is about leaving or being left.

Carrie Ryan

#21. Whoever takes me captive won't live long enough to enjoy it

Bernard Evslin

#22. We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms our sense of omnipresence as well as the validity of the material world.

Fred Ritchin

#23. Chief Wimbe also loved his cat, which was black and white but had no name. In Malawi, only dogs are given names, I don't know why.

William Kamkwamba

#24. I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

Fred Ritchin

#25. Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.

Fred Ritchin

#26. Cultivate an understanding that life is long, that people both change and remain the same, that every last one of us will need to fuck up and be forgiven, that we're all just walking and walking and walking and trying to find our way, that all roads lead eventually to the mountaintop.

Cheryl Strayed

#27. Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

Mary Baker Eddy