Richard Billingham Quotes

#1. "People don't attach themselves to me, Rachel."
She kisses my shoulder, and a shudder runs through my body, igniting every cell. "Then maybe they don't know you like I do."

Katie McGarry

#2. The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.

Brian J. White

#3. I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.

Richard Billingham

#4. We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

Carly Fiorina

#5. She wasn't born for this kind of life. You have to be born for this like you have to be born a butcher or a barber, I guess. Wouldn't anybody be either of them just for money or fun.

William Faulkner

#6. Nothing must come before the kingdom of God, including the desire for a simple life-style.

Richard J. Foster

#7. It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.

Richard Billingham

#8. When we don't tell those we love about what's really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her ... She is Molly.

Phillip Noyce

#10. All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around.

Harry Chapin

#11. Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

Albert Camus

#12. I suppose the primary intention of a documentary photographer is to document facts. My work often does this but it is not the primary intention. My intention is to make the best pictorial image I can.

Richard Billingham

#13. 156. By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

Ovid

#14. Here, illuminated at last,
Nestles the ruddy glint of spiritual certainty;
Sweet moments of passion and healing,
Of sensual release.

Scott Hastie