Idris Khan Quotes

#1. It's a feeling, followed by a choice made in the face of chaos and uncertainty: I don't know where this road will take me, but I want you by my side on the journey.

Melanie Harlow

#2. Everything's going to be fine. Sooner or later you're going to find someone who knocks you right off your feet. Someone who makes you feel alive. Someone who kisses you and makes your knees weak. Relationships are complicated enough as it is. It's not worth settling for anything less.

Lindsey Kelk

#3. There is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is Imperfection. When you focus too much on one thing, you tend to neglect another.

Jason Salvino

#4. I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

Hayao Miyazaki

#5. Do you always ask me the same questions you ask him?"
"It depends on whether or not I get an answer.

Anne Bishop

#6. Don't be put off by someone telling you that your image looks too digital; maybe that's the way it's supposed to look.

Idris Khan

#7. A lot of people in the art world hate to use the word Photoshop like it's cheating or easy or something. I say bollocks to that. For me, it's my tool, my paintbrush if you like, and lets me create my own visual language.

Idris Khan

#8. The photograph is a tool used to take you back to a certain point in one's life, to remember a face or a place you once stood. I feel there is always something quite melancholic about a photograph.

Idris Khan

#9. Recently, I can't seem to take a straight photograph without thinking that what I am photographing won't be the final image - like the world in front of me is not good enough or something.

Idris Khan

#10. I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

Vince Vaughn

#11. I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.

Jonathan Ive

#12. I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking back it makes so much sense. It's like it was a fight against the photograph.

Idris Khan

#13. I'm not a political artist in any way, but if an idea takes me somewhere or something is emotionally impactful, I find a way to make a painting that encapsulates it.

Idris Khan

#14. We can possess great land by faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. The plot thickens ... I didn't even know we had a plot on this trip.

Thea Harrison

#16. Se scappi non capisci.

Raffaella Fenoglio

#17. I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

Fred Rogers

#18. It is hard to avoid the aspect of time when producing what ones sees as a photograph ... my images [are] something that is not a frozen moment, but an image made up of many moments and that is created over time rather than taken.

Idris Khan

#19. The days with the baby felt long but there was nothing expansive about them. Caring for her required me to repeat a series of tasks that had the peculiar quality of seeming both urgent and tedious. They cut the day up into little scraps.

Jenny Offill

#20. They did not hear Grimble, as he lay dying, chant in the true voice of the Boreal Owl, in tones like chimes in the night, an ancient owl prayer, "I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly."

Kathryn Lasky