Polidori Quotes

#1. You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

Kenneth Oppel

#2. I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.

Robert Polidori

#3. Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,
as if the short spring days were an eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

Francisco Goya

#5. Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.

Robert Polidori

#6. The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. his character was dreadfully vicious, for that the possession of irresistible powers of seduction, rendered his licentious habits more dangerous to society.

John William Polidori

#8. I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.

Robert Polidori

#9. Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

Rodney Dangerfield

#10. My belief is that you should take stills of what doesn't seem to move, and take movies or videos of [what] does.

Robert Polidori

#11. The essence of the Way is detachment.

Bodhidharma

#12. I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.

Robert Polidori

#13. I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying the human form. I respond that I do better by portraying traces of character and intentions of human volition that no mug or body shot can ever exude.

Robert Polidori