Top 21 Newhall Quotes
#1. The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.
Nancy Wynne Newhall
#2. The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.
Nancy Newhall
#3. Perhaps the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will disappear and even our records be kept in images and sounds.
Nancy Newhall
#4. The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
Alfred North Whitehead
#5. The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.
Beaumont Newhall
#6. We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.
Beaumont Newhall
#7. Conservation is humanity caring for the future.
Nancy Newhall
#8. It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.
Beaumont Newhall
#9. Hustle is relentlessly pursuing what needs to be done at the time.
Dan Norris
#10. Who determines whether a secret is harmless or not?
J.M. Denholme
#11. The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
Nadine Gordimer
#12. How did one begin an adventure? Almost any road you took would lead there, if only you went on far enough.
Barbara Newhall Follett
#14. If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
Beaumont Newhall
#15. Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and the unfamiliar. His photographs, seen by millions, make momentary events and strange occurrences all over the world our common property.
Beaumont Newhall
#16. For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.
Hillary Clinton
#17. The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.
Beaumont Newhall
#18. Isn't it nice to discover that we're not exactly what we thought we were?
Julia Quinn
#19. By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
Larry Kramer
#20. Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer - a record of things seen and experienced, moments in the flow of time, documents of significance to me, experiments in seeing.
Beaumont Newhall
#21. Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.
Beaumont Newhall
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