Boubat Photography Quotes & Sayings

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

Our innate imbalances are further aggravated by practical demands. Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored. Society ends up containing a range of unbalanced groups, each hungering to sate its particular psychological deficiency, forming the backdrop against which our frequently heated conflicts about what is beautiful plays themselves out. — Alain De Botton

You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping. — Pia Zadora

What are the rules? I said & he said you run & you run & you run until you fall over. There's a couple others in there for variety, he added, but that's the main one. — Brian Andreas

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. — Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott

Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium. — Greta Gerwig

Polish you potentials so as to shine your credentials — Ikechukwu Joseph

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future. — Samuel Johnson

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

Blake peers around Amelia's shoulder. "He looks like Sleeping Beauty."
"Don't ever say that to his face," says Wolfboy."Actually, do. If he wakes up, promise me you'll say that to his face. — Leanne Hall

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable — George Eliot

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement. — Rumi

From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on me. I always had grown-up friends even though I was a little kid. I would take the train from Lido Beach into Manhattan, and I'd hang out in magic shops. — Rick Rubin

Oh let the lemons lie there,
upended yellow boats, their empty inboards
so clean and white, let them always ferry
such distractions from ourselves. — Michael J. Rosen

I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps. — Rachel McAdams