Boubat Edouard Quotes & Sayings

I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it. — Edouard Boubat

Because I know war ... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it ... After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this ... — Edouard Boubat

Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could buy postcards which show them much better. — Edouard Boubat

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable. — Simon Mainwaring

The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books. — Edouard Boubat

A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength is his ability to accurately record reality. There are photographers who think they are lucky if they find unusual or special subject. But it is never the subject that is so marvelous. It is how alive and real the photographer can make it. — Edouard Boubat

The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it. — Edouard Boubat

In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is consenting. With a photograph it's the same: always stolen, and still slightly consenting. — Edouard Boubat

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief. — Mason Cooley

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life. — Tara Brach

Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people. — Robert Baden-Powell

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight. — Corbin Bernsen

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error. — Edouard Boubat

Nowadays, photographers start out with ideas, and their photos become the expression of an idea. To my way of thinking, a photo should not depend on ideas, should go beyond ideas. — Edouard Boubat

You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability. — Edouard Boubat

There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things. A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world. — Edouard Boubat

Hours can pass like years when you wait impatiently for something, especially something you crave and dread at the same time. — Tara Hudson

Is this not pathetic, Odd, what some ill-educated fool has done? I take solace in reminding myself that 'art is long and critics are the insects of a day.'" "Shakespeare?" I asked. "No. Randall Jarrell. A wonderful poet, now all but forgotten because modern universities teach nothing but self-esteem and toe-sucking. — Dean Koontz

Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out. — Edouard Boubat

Reduce US military presence in Iraq; and bring in neighbors. — John F. Kerry

But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they could annoy. — Ernest Hemingway,

To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself. — Edouard Boubat

To live, to experience the world, to communicate with a camera, all these are interrelated and cannot be separated from everyday live. — Edouard Boubat

Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work. — Edouard Boubat

Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. — Stanley Baldwin

There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity ... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well. — Edouard Boubat

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. — Talcott Parsons