Martin Schoeller Quotes

#1. The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

Al Jourgensen

#2. If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.

Anna Deavere Smith

#3. I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

Martin Schoeller

#4. For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.

Hilaire Belloc

#5. I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.

Peter Beard

#6. I saw my father preach in Madison Square Garden, and I was a little embarrassed, I think, the first time I heard him preach. That's my father up there, and I kind of slid down in my chair.

Franklin Graham

#7. Rebecka laughs through her tears. There is almost too much laughter. It bubbles over because she has cried so much she has created an empty space, ready to be filled with another feeling.

Asa Larsson

#8. It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.

Frederick The Great

#9. Rosecrans is a family name - it used to be a last name in our family.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#10. A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.

Martin Schoeller

#11. Why don't I just hand you my panties and be done with it.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips