Top 21 Vishniac Quotes
#1. Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?
Elie Wiesel
#2. If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#3. Can you call a farm with a dozen geese a farm? Still, it was a little better for the Jews in Czechoslovakia. There were only two pogroms there. What's two pogroms?
Roman Vishniac
#4. Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly
Roman Vishniac
#5. The real me lives in words, not in what words mean.
Anne Sexton
#6. You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.
Roman Vishniac
#7. A man with a camera was always suspected of being a spy. Moreover, the Jews did not want to be photographed, due to a misunderstanding of the prohibition against making graven images (photography had not been invented when the Torah was written!). I was forced to use a hidden camera ...
Roman Vishniac
#8. Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world which might cease to exist.
Roman Vishniac
#9. One need only admit the premise that public peace of mind is in danger and any action finds justification. All the horrors of the Reign of Terror in France were based entirely on solicitude for public tranquillity.
Leo Tolstoy
#10. I was living in Germany in the thirties, and I knew that Hitler had made it his mission to exterminate all Jews, especially the children and the women who could bear children in the future. I was unable to save my people, only their memory.
Roman Vishniac
#11. If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.
Anton Corbijn
#12. The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator.
Roman Vishniac
#13. The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints ... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too.
Roman Vishniac
#16. Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification
crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed, like endless sets of boxes within boxes.
Roman Vishniac
#17. Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.
Garth Brooks
#18. If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.
Stephan Pastis
#19. Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.
Phillips Brooks
#20. I'm stripped and vital, and I see rules that almost fit. And if I voice my opinion, will you stay and sit? And as I stand here screaming in despair, I say yes this is my life and yes you should care.
Tegan Quin
