Top 24 Susan Meiselas Quotes
#1. There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand.
Susan Meiselas
#2. the farm. In fact, she imagined she was as far
Sarah Price
#3. Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There's no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.
Susan Meiselas
#4. It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.
Steven Adler
#5. We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks.
Susan Meiselas
#6. What worries me is that we want to close down our relationship to the world at large. In other words, people's instincts are overwhelmed by the amount of images, or they can't distinguish anymore between Rwanda or Bosnia or Somalia.
Susan Meiselas
#7. My motto has always been that anybody can do it better than me.
Paul Orfalea
#8. People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.
Mick Cornett
#9. The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else
we are the busiest people in the world.
Eric Hoffer
#10. I'd waited for this opportunity with Claudia for a long time - ever since elementary school when I tried to impress her on the monkey bars and woo her with my crayon drawings. But I couldn't have been with her any sooner. You can't expect someone to love a shadow.
Suzanne McKenna Link
#11. I think photography has a huge potential to expand a circle of knowledge. There's a reality that we are all the more linked globally and we have to know about each other. Photography gives us that opportunity.
Susan Meiselas
#12. There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#13. The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.
Susan Meiselas
#14. For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame ...
Susan Meiselas
#15. I have learned to be patient with people. Once again I point to Rose's computer and then to the words me too.
Sharon M. Draper
#17. If Instagram had been available when I was working in Nicaragua in 1978, I'm sure I would have wanted to use it as a way of reporting directly from the streets during the insurrection.
Susan Meiselas
#18. I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came ... and I was awakened.
J.R. Ward
#19. Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.
Rich Hall
#20. I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.
Susan Meiselas
#21. Don't panic. If you write, you'll be a writer.
Whitney Otto
#23. Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. The best you can do for anyone is to thrive fully and be willing to explain to anyone who asks how it is that you are thriving, and what it is that you've discovered - and then, just relax and trust that all truly is well.
Esther Hicks