Dicorcia Photography Quotes & Sayings

[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like a superhero, or an artist. — Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

Everything has a way of coming full circle. It takes patience and perseverance to see a dream through ... to close that circle. Because some dreams, like some circles, can be much bigger than others. — Karen Dale Trask

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life. — A.A. Gill

It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically. — Jeb Bush

If you're living in the community and you own your local businesses and you're engaged in the local economy you should have a definite interest in the strength and health of your community, the caring relationships that bind people together. — David Korten

I don't know everything. And I like not knowing everything. Because then I can learn it. — Richard Gold

In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their hands. By the last project, I was basically totally at the mercy of serendipity. — Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks. — Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. — Steve Jobs

I go to coffee shops for my outlet. Which is just not healthy at all. — Jane Lynch

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life. — Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate you, if you are chained inside.
Let go. And you'll know Freedom. — Yasmin Mogahed

Photography ... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect. — Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

God must first accomplish something in you before he can accomplish something through you. — Wayne Cordeiro

Death is a great transformation. But it is not an end. — Ambelin Kwaymullina

Chrysanthemums," my friend commented as we moved through our garden stalking flower-show blossoms with decapitating shears, "are like lions. Kingly characters. I always expect them to spring. To turn on me with a growl and a roar. — Truman Capote

The hard rain nailed the night to the city. — Dean Koontz

A bag which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very like the last time. A piece was not exchanged, not a bit of it, a piece was left over. The rest was mismanaged. — Gertrude Stein