Top 25 Hurn Quotes
#1. The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography ... The reason is that photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else. It is not the end result.
David Hurn
#2. The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.
David Hurn
#3. You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.
David Hurn
#4. I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.
Christopher Hitchens
#5. Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer.
David Hurn
#6. The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac
#7. I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.
David Hurn
#8. Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#9. These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command
positi on and timing
all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them
David Hurn
#10. There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.
David Hurn
#11. Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.
David Hurn
#12. I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.
David Hurn
#13. You cannot kill an idea by murdering innocent people - though you can nudge it toward suicide.
Joe Randazzo
#14. I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.
Peter Dinklage
#15. My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.
David Hurn
#16. This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And it's true. If you watch a photographer of merit working an event he/she does not look like an amateur ...
David Hurn
#17. I am qualified for this position, have a right to run for it, and am in the race.
Reba Hurn
#18. For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.
David Hurn
#19. The most important piece of equipment after the camera is a good pair of shoes.
David Hurn
#20. I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.
David Hurn
#22. When (the Reds) won, we loved it because we ran into the locker room and touched all the bats and gloves and got some bubble gum and red pop. When they lost, we were upset because we didn't get the bubble gum and red pop.
Ken Griffey Jr.
#23. One day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel that I was a photographer rather than a teacher. As simple as that.
David Hurn
#24. Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
Rachel Sklar
#25. Bob Bly is among the most accomplished self-employed copywriters in recent years.
Steve Slaunwhite
