Decarava Quotes & Sayings

I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone or discovering new forms; formal qualities are only tools to help state my message. — Roy DeCarava

When I was talking to a reporter, she said, "Oh, you mean to live for the moment." I said, "No, it isn't that. That has a hedonistic ring to it. I mean to live in the moment. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second. — Brian K. Vaughan

The kind of people who are satisfied with God are marked out as God's own. He is pleased with them, for they are pleased with him. They call him their God, and he calls them his people; he is satisfied to take them for a portion, and they are satisfied with him for their portion. There is a mutual communion of delight between God's Israel and Israel's God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not. — Roy DeCarava

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological. — Roy DeCarava

My photographs are subjective and personal-they'r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people's lives ... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what's important to me. — Roy DeCarava

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong. — Roy DeCarava

You should be able to look at me and see my work. You should be able to look at my work and see me. — Roy DeCarava

It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject. — Roy DeCarava

I dreamed of you and a dead dragon, Egg's brother Daeron said to him. A great beast, huge, with wings so large they could cover this meadow. It had fallen on top of you, but you were alive and the dragon was dead.
And so he was, poor Baelor. Dreams were a treacherous ground on which to build. — George R R Martin

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being. — Roy DeCarava

He'd turned to me, red-faced, and asked: 'If we were flying to Europe and you wanted to know what France was like, would it help if I described Germany? — Zadie Smith

What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured. — Anonymous

I Still Have Everything You Gave Me
It is dusty on the edges.
It is slightly rotten.
I guard it without thinking.
I focus on it once a year
when I shake it out in the wind.
I do not ache.
I would not trade. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading. — Stephen D. Krashen

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of. — Rush D. Holt Jr.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future. — Roy DeCarava

When I say "when you're always almost lonely, you forget to take it slowly," I mean that you don't always take care of yourself. — Ladyhawke

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it. — Roy DeCarava

I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert. — Joe Cocker

Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen. — Roy DeCarava

Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts. — Dave Barry

The fact that....you categorize everything as either sexist, or racist, or homophobic, whether it is or not, and therefore harmful to you and you just can't take it, is a kind of mania, a delusion, a psychosis that we have been coddling, encouraging people to think that life should be a smooth utopia built only for them and their fragile sensibility. — Bret Easton Ellis

I think 'Magneto' is definitely an anti-hero. He's fighting for the right thing, but his methods are far too extreme. He's not above breaking the law, stretching the limits of what is moral and putting evil to work for good. — Cullen Bunn

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself. — Roy DeCarava

Life is such a mysteriously complicated thing that no one should really presume to judge and condemn the behavior of anyone else. — Tennessee Williams

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history. — Roy DeCarava