Martine Franck Quotes

#1. I think I was shy as a young woman and realized that photography was an ideal way of expressing myself, of telling people what was going on without having to talk.

Martine Franck

#2. I feel concerned by what happens in the world ... I don't want to merely document; I want to know why a certain thing disturbs or attracts me and how a situation can affect the person involved.

Martine Franck

#3. My advice to photographers is to get out there in the field and take photographs but also if they are students to finish their course, learn as many languages as possible, go to movies, read books visit museums, broaden your mind.

Martine Franck

#4. Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

John Green

#5. 16 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea Or walked in the recesses of the deep?

Anonymous

#6. Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.

Martine Franck

#7. I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.

Martine Franck

#8. Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.

Vicki Lawrence

#9. He who moves not forward, goes backward. - Goethe

Mark W. Johnson

#10. What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to acclaim the unexpected.

Martine Franck

#11. It is not so easy as running and not running.

Robin McKinley

#12. Every five-year-old kid should have a pair of happy pajamas. (217)

Heather Gudenkauf

#13. My grandfather killed himself falling off the dike in Ostend while photographing my two cousins. This can happen so easily when looking through a lens: for a split second nothing else exists outside the frame.

Martine Franck

#14. The star that I was wishing
the light that I was kissing
sitting back and reminiscing
that night, it was missing.

Lokesh Fouzdar

#15. A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.

Martine Franck

#16. Confidence can be the first pillar of defense in any situation. If one has confidence, it does not matter what crisis you face. You will overcome or at least minimize the impact of the crisis.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono