Roy Decarava Quotes

#1. It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.)

Robin McKinley

#2. God, understood in this proper sense, is essentially beyond finite comprehension;

David Bentley Hart

#3. Comes down to your training, your heart, your mind, your soul, and who wants it more.

Diego Sanchez

#4. I did absolutely nothing. Carefully.

Jim Butcher

#5. For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

Roy DeCarava

#6. A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.

Roy DeCarava

#7. The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

Roy DeCarava

#8. You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me.

Roy DeCarava

#9. But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

Roy DeCarava

#10. My photographs are subjective and personal-they'r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people's lives ... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what's important to me.

Roy DeCarava

#11. It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.

Roy DeCarava

#12. The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

Roy DeCarava

#13. Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.

Roy DeCarava

#14. There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

Roy DeCarava

#15. I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

Roy DeCarava

#16. Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.

Frederick Lenz

#17. You get a decent do at the Brazen Head

James Joyce

#18. The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

William Vickrey

#19. I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone or discovering new forms; formal qualities are only tools to help state my message.

Roy DeCarava

#20. Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.

Roy DeCarava