Ray Metzker Quotes

#1. Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Karl Popper

#2. I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're like to discover.

Ray Metzker

#3. I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.

Helen Keller

#4. I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand and grasp seems to lead me.

Ray Metzker

#5. This is the day of the reaping.

Suzanne Collins

#6. Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations ... I have always been interested in everyman - average, ordinary people in everyday situations.

Ray Metzker

#8. A lot of my work is about is about events, but I also think a lot of my work is about fragmentation ... You have to break something down in order to have the parts synthesize.

Ray Metzker

#9. Am I to bless the lost you,
sitting here with my clumsy soul?

Anne Sexton

#10. When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

Sigmund Freud

#11. Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

Ray Metzker

#12. The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me.

Ray Metzker

#13. What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet tender and exquisite.

Ray Metzker

#14. When alternative music - which is supposed to be the standard-bearer of where white rock is headed - becomes either too cute or too manufactured, that's just really not good.

Billy Corgan

#15. There is something specifically healthy about strong fences and boundaries. They first of all are a way of taking intrinsic care of yourself and those you love. But energetically something else happens as well. Things fall into place. ~Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden

Kathryn Hall