Quotes About Polaroids

#1. The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.

Chuck Close

#2. Give me down. And give me the Polaroids of the fifty geese that had to die in the process.

Augusten Burroughs

#3. I was in Milan, and somebody gave me a Trussardi diary, and I thought 'Genius.' Inside I put the Polaroids, how much film I shot, who I shot with. This way, for billing later on, I had all the information.

Sante D'Orazio

#4. I shot my undergraduate work on 35mm. I love the way it looks, but I haven't shot film in a while. If you can avoid scanning, it makes your practice faster. Oh, and I shoot a lot of Polaroid, too. I have about five hundred Polaroids from my film that I hope to show soon.

Laurel Nakadate

#5. I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short space. I like Lorrie Moore. Amy Hempel. Tim O'Brien. Raymond Carver. All the heartbreakers.

Laurel Nakadate

#6. Doc remembered how Polaroids have no negatives and the life of the prints is limited. These, he noticed, were already beginning to shift color and fade.

Thomas Pynchon

#7. Artists freeze themselves into these weird postures that are meant to be impressive and involving, then they fling them out into the world like Polaroids, and then they move on. And I'm stuck in this intense relationship to the Polaroid.

Jonathan Lethem

#8. I didn't invent the word "selfie," but I took tons of Polaroids of myself.

Brigid Berlin

#9. I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.

Helena Christensen

#10. I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#11. Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

Thomas Aquinas

#12. If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.

Lenny Kravitz

#13. We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#14. You've got to visualize where you're headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you're going to be in a few years.

Sara Blakely

#15. With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

Antonin Artaud

#16. Internet has lulled humans with the sense of dependency to greater extent.

Santosh Kalwar

#17. Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty

Walker Evans

#18. Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear?

Barry Cryer

#19. Hollywood has gone from Pola to Polaroid.

Pola Negri

#20. [A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Edwin Land

#21. When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

Daniel Kahneman

#22. For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.

Rio Ferdinand

#23. Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

Ovid