Quotes About Yousuf Karsh

#1. The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.

Yousuf Karsh

#2. None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

Benjamin Whichcote

#3. The thing I like most about acting is that it entertains people. Films and TV can also offer such comfort to people ... TV especially, because it's in people's homes and they can watch it at home. It offers them insights into different cultures and ideas, which I think is great.

Yasmin Paige

#4. My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera.

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#5. For someone who's made it clear that her life is superior to every other student's at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#6. Sometimes people are just misunderstood. People and animals. We can't just assume they are thinking one thing and can avoid temptation. it's hard as hell to avoid that red flag when it's waving in your face.

Magan Vernon

#7. I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.

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#8. There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.

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#9. Ten thousand people were baptized in the Han river in Seoul, Korea. Imagine! 10,000 people giving their lives to Christ at one time! I will never forget it! ----I felt that the constant prayers of the Korean people had made the difference. I think we in the west should take prayer more seriously.

Helen Goldie

#10. The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

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#11. My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble.

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#12. The Master said, If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

Confucius

#13. As a result, they were all astounded and gave glory to God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!" Mark 2:12

Beth Moore

#14. I have found that great people do have in common ... an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.

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#15. If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

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#16. Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

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#17. If you scorn the fellowship of the brethren, you reject the call of Jesus Christ, and thus your solitude can only be hurtful to you.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#18. It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this.

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#19. If the sponge (mirror) neurons are our receiver, then our subcortical areas are the amplifier. These subcortical shifts are what changes in us when we attune to someone else.

Daniel J. Siegel

#20. Character, like film, develops in darkness.

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#21. Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

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#22. Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

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#23. I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

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#24. I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

Abbas Kiarostami

#25. We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.

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