Lev Manovich Quotes

#1. During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long ... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable.

Lev Manovich

#2. Right is right and wrong is wrong.

Terrell Owens

#3. While in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the loss of data, degradation, and noise; the noise which is even stronger than that of traditional photography.

Lev Manovich

#4. And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire.

Dante Alighieri

#5. Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

Mark Frost

#6. If I live in fear of what might be, how can I truly live my life to the full in the present? And if I do not give myself to the day, to hope, to life, what do I miss?

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#7. I didn't expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience.

Dannii Minogue

#8. The reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.

Lev Manovich

#9. Any unique image that you desire probably already exists on the internet or in some database ... the problem today is no longer how to create the right image, but how to find an already existing one.

Lev Manovich

#10. We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence.

Lev Manovich

#11. Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.

Lev Manovich

#12. I'm not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street.

Ben Nelson

#13. Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.

John Wilmot

#14. I think the most important thing for an artist is to stay true to who you are. I want to stay as authentic as possible, as that's how we're going with our team.

Daya

#15. The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.

Lev Manovich

#16. Our stories are not new; yet, in the retelling we are reborn as heroes.

Harley King