Gilles Peress Quotes

#1. What hits you affects you and wakes you up more then what pleases you.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. Religion and philosophy may perhaps go on side by side; but their provinces are wholly distinct, and therefore there is no need to attempt a reconciliation between them.

Henry Longueville Mansel

#3. We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic posting of images but the democratic interpretation of images.

Gilles Peress

#4. You can't simplify my taste and say, 'Parker likes big wines,' because it's just not true.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#5. I will make it my personal mission in life to squash you and your department like a horse turd under my boot heel.

Leslie Murray

#6. was beginning to think she'd lied about that.

V.J. Chambers

#7. [The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?

Gilles Peress

#8. Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was light. Watch it ... Lovely.

Nevil Shute

#9. I didn't want him to move on. I wanted to go backwards, back in time and hug him. Never let him go.

Penelope Ward

#10. I am certainly very pro-Europe.

John Gimlette

#11. Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

Gilles Peress

#12. I think part of it is the fact that they were kind of the first of its kind - there weren't a lot of cartoons for adults. People forget at the time that The Simpsons started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said "hell" and "damn" in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.

Eric Andre

#13. I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

Gilles Peress

#14. I believe if I refuse to grow old, I can stay young 'til I die.

Stephen Schwartz

#15. I am bad at memory - this is why I shoot pictures.

Gilles Peress

#16. I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

Sue Monk Kidd

#17. All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

#18. People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

Ernest Gellner

#19. I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

Gilles Peress