Top 27 Rene Burri Quotes
#1. Everyone takes pictures, so you need to have your own opinion.
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#3. My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.
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#4. On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.
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#5. I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.
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#6. If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph.
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#7. I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.
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#8. Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It's funny finding what's challenging about acting as you go.
Allison Williams
#9. The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments.
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#10. I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.
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#11. I lived and grew up in the black and white period of photojournalism.
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#12. In 1958, a year before the revolution, Magnum wanted to send me to Cuba because they had contacts with the rebels. I'd just spent six months in South America and said 'No', so I missed everything.
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#13. Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal.
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#14. What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.
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#15. A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back.
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#16. My religion is very important to me.
Rick Scott
#17. I never thought I would become a photographer.
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#18. I always do whatever is best for the character.
Avan Jogia
#19. There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.
David Cameron
#20. I suddenly had to chase after my pictures ... Pictures are like taxis during rush hour - if you're not fast enough, someone else will get there first.
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#21. To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.
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#22. I never had the time or luxury to think about inventing my own colour theory. When colour came, I was interested in expressing things that happened around me in time.
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#23. One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take. It is going to be a huge hit.
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#24. A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.
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#25. It took me six years to get close to Picasso. I learnt a lot from him, and he was an absolute genius. He almost became my grandfather at the time. It was like he was a magician or something.
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#26. You come to a point in your life and you may be in bed just thinking about it. Ask yourself what is stopping you from becoming your dreams
Kai Greene
#27. For me, Picasso was the ultimate man. He taught me that photography is all about how you approach an image: what you do and what you don't do. He inspired me to go beyond what you think is in front of you.
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