Inge Morath Quotes

#1. In my heart I like to remain an amateur, in the sense of being in love with what I'm doing, forever astonished again at the endless possibilities of seeing and using the camera as a recording tool.

Inge Morath

#2. Ethics is the restraint by which the individual organism affects computation in the ecosystem, creating moral position. What is "right" produces the least amount of disturbance to the individual in the ethical habitat.

James Eicher

#3. To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything.

Inge Morath

#4. Pressing the shutter has remained a moment of joyful recognition, comparable to the delight of a child balancing on tiptoe and suddenly, with a small cry of delight, stretching out a hand toward a desired object.

Inge Morath

#5. It hurts to leave a lie, but it hurts more to live one.

Brent Weeks

#6. Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

David Lynch

#7. We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible?

Kevin Drum

#8. I stare awkwardly up at him as his eyes scan mine, morphing from forlorn into something darker, a fiery passion beaming out from somewhere deep inside his loins.

Lena Black

#9. Photography is a strange phenomenon ... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.

Inge Morath

#10. Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution

John Gray

#12. I made physical objects because I know how to do something on the computer. That struck a chord with me: Most women of my generation have grown up with technology but lack the handmade creative skills of former generations. This is a big opportunity to fill that gap.

Brit Morin

#13. He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

Margaret Atwood

#14. I'm all for getting trashed," I confess.
"I'm sure you are, except I'll clue you in on a little something: when it's over, your problems still exist.

Katie Klein

#15. I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.

John Gierach

#16. If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

Mary Jo Putney

#17. Photography is essentially a personal matter - a search for inner truth.

Inge Morath

#18. The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden ... A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.

C.S. Lewis