Paul Outerbridge Quotes

#1. I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

Alfred De Musset

#2. Now, whereas we do not find it hard to accept the beauty of a flower for itself alone, in present-day, mechanical-industrial civilization, people will usually question the use of a picture. Things are estimated much more for what they do or will do than for what they are or will become ...

Paul Outerbridge

#3. If exposure of a nude body is thought to incite relations between the sexes, well, what of it. We want a large population anyway.

Paul Outerbridge

#4. I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was more related to the progress and tempo of modern science of the eye.

Paul Outerbridge

#5. There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.

Joseph Livesey

#6. There is nothing destroyed by sanctification but that which would destroy us.

William Jenkyn

#7. I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So I transferred to the Open University, because I could do it all online. By that point, I had admitted to myself that I had the acting bug.

Holliday Grainger

#8. [A photograph] should do something to the beholder; either give a more complete appreciation of beauty, or, if nothing else, even a good mental kick in the pants.

Paul Outerbridge

#9. Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind

Paul Outerbridge

#10. I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

Truman Capote

#11. Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

Satish Kumar

#12. In black and white you suggest, in color you state.

Paul Outerbridge

#13. One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty ... absolute certainty.

Paul Outerbridge