Karsh Quotes

#1. Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

Yousuf Karsh

#2. Sardonic, seriocomic saga of the plight of India's poor.

Aravind Adiga

#3. My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera.

Yousuf Karsh

#4. Is it just me, or is spooge the single least attractive synonym for dickglue?

Cory O'Brien

#5. I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.

Yousuf Karsh

#6. There was nothing romantic about bonding with someone to become a warrior or bonding with someone else to become a brood mare.

Anonymous

#7. There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.

Yousuf Karsh

#8. I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.

Kristen Wiig

#9. I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.

Peter Tosh

#10. The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

Yousuf Karsh

#11. My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble.

Yousuf Karsh

#12. Day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, God wants us to talk to Him. But are we too busy in our daily lives to speak some words to Him? God reaches out and speaks to us in many various ways. But are we hearing them?

Kcat Yarza

#13. The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.

Yousuf Karsh

#14. If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Yousuf Karsh

#15. You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of life or the fate of the planet?

Steven Pinker

#16. I have found that great people do have in common ... an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.

Yousuf Karsh

#17. It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this.

Yousuf Karsh

#18. I had once thought this was a third world problem. It is not. It is a politician's mentality. A problem is only a problem if it has the immediate potential to stall the economy or contract the popularity of the administration.

Ray Anyasi

#19. While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his downward voyage, he was getting into a better temper every minute.

Thomas Hughes

#20. The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.

Michael Shurtleff

#21. I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's ... I am an atheist and an absurdist and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that.

Joss Whedon

#22. Character, like film, develops in darkness.

Yousuf Karsh

#23. Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

Yousuf Karsh

#24. I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.

Aleksandar Hemon

#25. Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

Yousuf Karsh

#26. The fear is mother of the event.

Viktor E. Frankl

#27. Now I wished I tried more and wasn't so afraid to put myself out there. Maybe if I had reached out for new experiences, I'd known what I wanted to do with my life. Now my options felt limited, because I'd held myself back in high school ...

Penelope Douglas

#28. I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

Yousuf Karsh

#29. We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.

Yousuf Karsh