Quotes About Mathew Brady

#1. Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.

David McCullough

#2. The camera is the eye of history.

Mathew Brady

#3. No one to hate except the slim fish of memory
that slides in and out of my brain.

Anne Sexton

#4. The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

Alia Shawkat

#5. THE PREMIER COMMANDMENT. [Deut. 6:4, 5] Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.4 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Anonymous

#6. No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.

Mathew Brady

#7. I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.

Oscar Isaac

#8. I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go', and I went.

Mathew Brady

#9. The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

George Carlin

#10. You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others.

P. W. Botha

#11. From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers

Mathew Brady

#12. Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

Georges Braque

#13. I recognize the smell - his smell - spice and rain.

Sabaa Tahir

#14. But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

Ernie Hudson

#15. My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

Mathew Brady

#16. There's a difference between serving the system and enabling it.

Wildbow