Roman Vishniac Quotes

#1. Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

Elie Wiesel

#2. The last act crowns the play.

John Ruskin

#3. Can you call a farm with a dozen geese a farm? Still, it was a little better for the Jews in Czechoslovakia. There were only two pogroms there. What's two pogroms?

Roman Vishniac

#4. Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly

Roman Vishniac

#5. A good quotation must be like a beautiful door opening to a beautiful place!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.

Roman Vishniac

#7. A man with a camera was always suspected of being a spy. Moreover, the Jews did not want to be photographed, due to a misunderstanding of the prohibition against making graven images (photography had not been invented when the Torah was written!). I was forced to use a hidden camera ...

Roman Vishniac

#8. Are terrorists going to be deterred
are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism.

Howard Zinn

#9. She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader.

Glen Duncan

#10. Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world which might cease to exist.

Roman Vishniac

#11. I was living in Germany in the thirties, and I knew that Hitler had made it his mission to exterminate all Jews, especially the children and the women who could bear children in the future. I was unable to save my people, only their memory.

Roman Vishniac

#12. If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

Peter Greenaway

#13. The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator.

Roman Vishniac

#14. When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

John Berger

#15. Experts devote their life to training. Masters devote their training to life.

Dan Millman

#16. The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints ... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too.

Roman Vishniac

#17. Today is a day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#18. Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification
crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed, like endless sets of boxes within boxes.

Roman Vishniac

#19. I always thought when I became an adult everything would become less confusing, but unfortunately, everything's only becoming more confusing.

Meg Cabot

#20. Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Terence McKenna