Tod Papageorge Quotes

#1. I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.

Tod Papageorge

#2. Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.

Maisie Williams

#3. [The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).

Tod Papageorge

#4. My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty that, in my experience, is generally deficient compared to the mad swirling possibilities that our dear common world kicks up at us on a regular basis.

Tod Papageorge

#5. Expect the worst and you can't be disappointed. Optimism is the luxury of the young, the foolish and the dullard.

Luke Scull

#6. If the gospel of Jesus Christ is not at the center of a wedding ceremony, it is likely not going to be at the center of the marriage. This would be a grave mistake, however, as marriage itself is designed to be a great reflector of that gospel.

Matt Chandler

#7. if you want it really, you get it !!!

Ravinder Singh

#8. In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.

Van Day Truex

#9. It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries ...

Tod Papageorge

#10. Within all the darkness of my life, I had found the brilliant spot of light that pushed away the shadows
-Rylee Adamson in reference to Liam OShea

Shannon Mayer

#11. If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.

Tod Papageorge

#12. I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I don't really believe in it particularly now. A picture is not the world, but a new thing.

Tod Papageorge

#13. Like I say, I killed a man or two but I'm no thief. My ma raised me better.

Louis L'Amour

#14. We can't see even into the Oort cloud, so we don't actually know that it is there. Its existence is probable but entirely hypothetical.1 About

Bill Bryson

#15. If it makes you nervous- you're doing it right.

Donald Glover

#16. During Xtha-cka Zhi-ga The-the, the Killer of Flowers Moon. I will wade across the river of the blackfish, the otter, the beaver. I will climb the bank where the willow never dies.

David Grann

#17. Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.

Tod Papageorge

#18. By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise ... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.

Tod Papageorge

#19. I don't have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone.

Bill Cosby

#20. Let's downplay religion and lets begin to work hard on who God wants us to become.

Sunday Adelaja

#21. Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings.

Henri Nouwen

#22. Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

Bob Proctor