Dicorcia W 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

Trust and surrender to the process of your divinely feminine unfolding. — Shann Vander Leek

The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it. — Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Shine your light unto the night to bring on the dawn — Srividya Srinivasan

The deepest motivation for a lot of artists is obviously the one they all share: their great fear they are a fraud. It's a joke. In my case the problem is not that I don't question myself. It's just that I question other people even more ... — Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences. — Ban Ki-moon

A promise made should be a promise kept. — Steve Forbes

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

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else's, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love ... Taken together they provide an unusually touching story of young love unable to prevail against an opposition whose strength was tragically buttressed by the uncertainties of a cultural divide. — Isabel Colegate

Composers and lyricists are not responsible for storyline and casting. One can imagine actors shouldering this responsibility, since they charge for half the film. But producers never ask actors to share the losses. Instead, they train their guns on composers and lyricists. — Shaan

I'd rather be in Forks? I shop the HOB? What do these even mean?! — Anne Eliot

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

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS. — Robert Klein

Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like. — Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

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

I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out. — Ruskin Bond

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears. — Ken Blanchard