Tibor Kalman Quotes

#1. Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.

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#2. My heart may be black but it was still capable of heart failure.

Abbi Glines

#3. Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.

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#4. I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.

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#5. I like being a 10-year-old kid who's in charge.

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#6. I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate to, who didn't want anything from me, that could relate to me because I didn't want anything from her. It was nice.

Nikki Giovanni

#7. I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

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#8. I don't think the rating system places too much pressure on chefs. I prefer to put the pressure on my chefs to perform to the top standards.

Alain Ducasse

#9. I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

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#10. Some people ... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different plane from an obviously subjective form of visual communication such as painting.

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#11. You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.

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#12. Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

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#13. Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#14. Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

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#15. You are not really a noun; you are a verb. You are not really a person; you are a soul in action. You are your embryo, you are your baby, you are your child, you are your adult, and you are your spirit when you pass through this body through this lifetime.

Catherine Carrigan

#16. No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

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#17. I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.

Brian Celio

#18. Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

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#19. To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.

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#20. Everything is an experiment.

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#21. And opportunities are like stories in books," I retorted. "All we need do is pick one.

C.W. Gortner

#22. Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman.

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#23. A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

Gore Vidal

#24. I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

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#25. Prayer, which is breathing with the Spirit of Jesus, leads us to this immense knowledge.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#26. I'm not against beauty, it just sounds boring to me.

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#27. If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way - as I did in the beginning at 'Colors' - then I'm going to do it.

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#28. I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability.

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#29. Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.

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#30. As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.

John Noble

#31. When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

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#32. Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.

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#33. The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

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#34. If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

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#35. Deal with your past so that it won't affect your future.

The Prolific Penman

#36. Consumer culture is contradiction in terms

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#37. The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

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