Quotes About Eliot Porter

#1. I live a lonely photographic life here in Santa Fe. I do see Eliot Porter occasionally, and Ansel storms through every so often, otherwise I plug along in my old fashioned way.

Laura Gilpin

#2. Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

Eliot Porter

#3. If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

James Russell Lowell

#4. I want you to know if we die right now, I won't be able to distinguish if I've made it to heaven or not, because I'm already sitting here with you.. like this. -Gray Porter

Anne Eliot

#5. Ignoring Gray Porter is like ignoring an elephant in a tut. A really hot elephant in a tutu ... a very manly tutu. -Jess

Anne Eliot

#6. Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment ... and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.

Eliot Porter

#7. Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.

Eliot Porter

#8. We would all believe in God if he served our every whim. Belief is not about an easy life or even truth. Belief is something you have regardless.

Jessica Shirvington

#9. If only Gray Porter had never wandered into my dreams.
Including the good, waking ones.

Anne Eliot

#10. I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.

Eliot Porter

#11. Again, the first "o" in "borogoves" is pronounced like the "o" in "borrow." I have heard people try to give it the sound of the "o" in "worry". Such is Human Perversity.

Lewis Carroll

#12. My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

Eliot Porter

#13. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter / And on her daughter / They wash their feet in soda water.

T. S. Eliot

#14. She had learned fear now. And her mind sniffed about like a rat looking for an escape.

John Steinbeck

#15. All this time I'd thought we were strangers, and it turned out we knew each other intuitively, in our bones, in our blood. It was kind of romantic. Catastrophically romantic.

Gillian Flynn

#16. I grab my bag and open the door, trying to ignore him. But ignoring Gray Porter is like ignoring an elephant in a tutu. A really hot elephant-in a very manly tutu.

Anne Eliot

#17. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

Eliot Porter

#18. Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

Amit Ray

#19. When you have worked this hard to get this far, don't let up because you finally got here. Finish with your heart and fulfill this moment the way you have dreamt of it for so long.

Kristin Kreuk

#20. When I first started watching Godzilla, I was a kid and a big dinosaur freak and was like, "Oh my gosh, there's a big dinosaur." So I immediately got into Godzilla. What I like about it are some of the things people often think are negative aspects.

Brad Warner

#21. Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.

Eliot Porter

#22. I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.

Charles Bukowski

#23. Pretend-dating Gray Porter is going to be like pretend-dating a rainbow. Everyone looks at him all the time.

Anne Eliot