Willy Ronis Quotes

#1. I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life ... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.

Willy Ronis

#2. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Allen Neuharth

#4. Do you have other minions? Because these two are idiots.

Andrea Cremer

#5. If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#6. I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.

Willy Ronis

#7. In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

Henry A. Wallace

#8. A fine image is geometry, modulated by the heart

Willy Ronis

#9. I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well constructed. If they had false notes, they stayed on the contact sheet.

Willy Ronis

#10. A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.

Eric Maisel

#11. [Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

James Nachtwey

#12. A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it.

Willy Ronis

#13. Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.

Willy Ronis

#14. A husband and wife should tell each other about the things that are on their mind, otherwise you get nowhere,

E.B. White

#15. My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.

Philip Morrison

#16. And these invitations, these are already sent out?" Rich asked from the front row. "Indeed. Ever since the year a student attempted to hijack the mail truck, we've made it policy to only remind the students of Parents' Weekend after all the invitations are delivered,

Drew Hayes

#17. We do not see what is "real," we see what we are.

Willy Ronis

#18. I just think people have been very gracious and welcoming me on set, and even off set.

Chadwick Boseman

#19. I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread.

Willy Ronis

#20. When you expect something, it is on the way. When you believe something, it is on the way. When you fear something, it is on the way. Your attitude or mood is always pointing toward what is coming, but you are never stuck with your current point of attraction.

Esther Hicks

#21. Before the battle begins and the outcome has been decided, let the adversary know that you are a fearless competitor, worthy of a second opinion.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.