Lisette Model Quotes

#1. There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them ... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.

Diane Arbus

#2. You have a great personality!" Thanks. I constructed it so you wouldn't abandon me.

Unknown

#3. New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to see, to be aware of what there is and how it is. The photographer not only gets information, he gives information about life.

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#4. Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

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#5. I was ... labelled as an advocate because ... I measured something.

Jeremy Jackson

#6. I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection which is exactly their appeal and their style.

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#7. I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don't want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson.

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#8. I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

Stephen Pagliuca

#9. It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.

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#10. Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in.

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#11. Live counterculturally when the culture, baptized or secular, does not affirm truth, love, faith, mercy, and justice.

Sarah Bessey

#12. This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP, for peace, against peace, entertainment, television, movies, all of them - you will not find one without photography.

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#13. There is no recipe for friendship. Just a bunch of ingredients that different people put together in different ways to create something magical between them.

Toni Sorenson

#14. Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?

Billy Connolly

#15. Don't wait for Tomorrow, as tomorrow might be too late- Tylia Flores

Tylia Flores

#16. Perhaps once he had been a good clown. A noble clown. But he'd stolen Randall's chainsaw, and had to die.

Blake Crouch

#17. Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. Marie Laurencin.

Stella Gibbons

#19. I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

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#20. There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.

Laura Wasser

#21. Thou art My light and My light shall never be extinguished; why dost thou dread extinction? Thou art My glory and My glory shall fadeth not; thou art My robe and My robe shall never be outworn.

Baha'u'llah

#22. Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

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#23. Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

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#24. I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to make a living ... My whole freedom working in photography comes because I say to myself, Let's see what is going on in this world. Let's find out. How do these people look?

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#25. Don't shoot til the subject hits you in the pit of your stomach.

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#26. I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

James Taylor

#27. The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest.

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#28. The World has not evolved into what it is today to specifically meet my pleasures.

Sammy Sutton

#29. They say my prints are bad, darling they should see my negatives

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#30. Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.

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