Robert Polidori Quotes

#1. I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.

Robert Polidori

#2. She grabbed his arm. "Let it be, son!" she cried. "That child ain't hurt!"
"Not hurt! You look into her eyes and tell me she ain't hurt!

Mildred D. Taylor

#3. A quasi-mystical response to nature and the universe is common among scientists and rationalists. It has no connection with supernatural belief. In

Richard Dawkins

#4. Gone are the days when you took Henry James on the train and read it in front of cute guys to impress them.

Amy Poehler

#5. Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.

Robert Polidori

#6. It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.

L. Frank Baum

#7. I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.

Robert Polidori

#8. My belief is that you should take stills of what doesn't seem to move, and take movies or videos of [what] does.

Robert Polidori

#9. My sister ... was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.

Mark Twain

#10. I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.

Robert Polidori

#11. With very few exceptions, successful movies didn't translate well to the small screen-but that didn't stop TV executives from attempt after attempt.

Bob Leszczak

#12. I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying the human form. I respond that I do better by portraying traces of character and intentions of human volition that no mug or body shot can ever exude.

Robert Polidori