Quotes About Platon

#1. How am I? If we grumble at sickness, God won't grant us death,' replied Platon, and at once resumed the story he had begun.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.

Kristen Johnston

#3. If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#4. For one shining moment, you were the king of fear, she said.

David Cronenberg

#5. I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots.

Platon

#6. Mugabe had a very strange quality about him. He was dapper. He had the strangest skin - it looks very shiny, but it's not oily. It's stretched very finely over his flesh. His eyes have layers of cyan crystals in them. It was a quiet, dark moment when I took his picture.

Platon

#7. Always choose Paris.

Lauren Conrad

#8. When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.

Willie Nelson

#9. It's very intimidating to be photographed, but if I kneel down and chat with you, so you're looking down at me, it makes you feel less threatened.

Platon

#10. I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

Platon

#11. Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.

Platon

#12. I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal.

Platon

#13. Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

Platon

#14. Love is basic for the birth of a true society, while violence has in it the essence of anti-sociality. Love is positive, is eternal: violence is degeneracy, it is it's own destruction.

Toyohiko Kagawa

#15. I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.

Platon

#16. I never think about a shoot before I do it. Because there's no formula for people. What I try to do is to strip everything away rather than go in with preconceived notions. If I do that, I might miss a gem or a jewel that the person is offering me.

Platon

#17. I've always had a healthy disregard for authority - it allows me to do my job as a portrait photographer and not as someone who is playing the power game.

Platon

#18. I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone's spirit on a certain day. And it's never the whole truth; it's the truth I experience in a very intense and intimate fashion.

Platon

#19. Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.

Ambrose Bierce

#20. He is like a female llama surprised in her bath.

Winston Churchill

#21. People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer.

Platon

#22. When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Sam Ewing

#23. The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.

Joel Salatin

#24. I've been one of the image-makers who created this concept of perfection. I've done a thousand magazine covers where I'm celebrating Hollywood, glamorous people. Which is all good. It's all entertainment.

Platon

#25. My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.

Platon

#26. Reason #2: The other reason you'll want to track your productivity is because of a little-known principle called The Hawthorne Effect. This effect says that whatever you measure improves.

Ryan Healy