Sternfeld Joel Quotes

#1. I find mediocrity hard. I find that whole area difficult. I'm a very passionate person; I care very much about what I do. I believe I give it a lot, so it's gotta be good; otherwise, what's the point?

Phoebe Philo

#2. I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.

Joel Sternfeld

#3. I loved the High Line when it was just mine, when I was the only person up there, and I had a private park in New York City. I had to make an appointment to see it ... I'd walk around. I was all alone.

Joel Sternfeld

#4. With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know about the author and their background? What do I know about the subject?'

Joel Sternfeld

#5. There was happiness of laughter.
Petra Hermans + Michael Ende
November 20, 2016
Amen

Petra Hermans

#6. No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.

Joel Sternfeld

#7. The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

Joel Sternfeld

#8. SIN WILL TAKE YOU FARTHER THAN YOU WANT TO GO, KEEP YOU LONGER THAN YOU WANT TO STAY AND COST YOU MORE THAN YOU WANT TO PAY.

Kimberly Jones-Pothier

#9. When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.

Joel Sternfeld

#10. Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

Joel Sternfeld

#11. For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - that's what I deeply loved.

Joel Sternfeld

#12. When do any of us ever do enough?

Barbara Jordan

#13. We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

Robert Hughes

#14. I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

Barry Humphries

#15. You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

Joel Sternfeld

#16. My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.

Natalia Kills

#17. I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.

Joel Sternfeld

#18. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

Joel Sternfeld

#19. Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

Joel Sternfeld

#20. Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.

Joel Sternfeld

#21. I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame.

Joel Sternfeld

#22. You want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.

Helen Gurley Brown

#23. A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

Joel Sternfeld

#24. The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.

Joel Sternfeld

#25. All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.

Joel Sternfeld