Martin Munkacsi Quotes

#1. My trick - is there one? Well, perhaps a bitter youth with many changes of occupation, with the necessity of trying everything from poetry to berry picking. These difficult early years probably constitute the sources of my modest photographic activity.

Martin Munkacsi

#2. You can mean more than one.
You can mean thousands.
I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you.
I'll pretend you can hear me.
But it's no good, because I know you can't.

Margaret Atwood

#3. Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

Josh Billings

#4. In the case of sociology however, we are always walking on hot coals, and the things we discuss are alive, they're not dead and buried

Pierre Bourdieu

#5. Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

Mark Hopkins

#6. Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Plato

#7. To see in a thousandth of a second what indifferent people come close to without noticing - that is the principle of photographic reportage. And in the thousandth of a second that follows, to take the photo of what one has seen - that is the practical side of reportage.

Martin Munkacsi

#8. Never pose your subjects. Let them move about naturally ... All great photographs today are snapshots.

Martin Munkacsi

#9. On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. That's when it all hit me and I started laughing. I'd just had incredible, indescribable sex with the hottest guy I'd ever met - and I was still a fucking virgin. Jesus. Just like high school. I couldn't give this shit away.

Joanna Wylde

#11. Love is when your heart wraps around something and won't let go.

Rebecca Stead

#12. To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions.

Brian Tracy

#13. We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future.

Kevin DeYoung

#14. I'm always perpetually out of my comfort zone.

Tory Burch