Dupain Quotes & Sayings

Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create. — Max Dupain

Dance with me, Death, I am ready. — Terry Goodkind

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard ... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Subject matter comes to you, you don't go to it ... Although I shoot extemporaneously a lot of the time, I prefer to have half a dozen shots in my mind. Probably I have seen them many times under different conditions and I have been thinking about them. The moment shall come when I shall go back to them and make the photographs. — Max Dupain

A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied — Larry David

For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf. — Max Dupain

I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one. — Giulio Andreotti

I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field. — Max Dupain

Google is a private company. It has the capacity to utilize its massive power for whatever political agenda it chooses. But for it to pretend to be an advocate for Internet freedom while simultaneously disadvantaging messages it finds politically incorrect is deeply hypocritical. — Ben Shapiro

Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing eye, appropriate reflexes which embrace sensitive observations coupled with appropriate emotional responses. — Max Dupain