Ghirri Luigi Quotes & Sayings

The motivation to make a "Wow!" impression is not to better everyone else in town. It's not about stroking our egos, pleased with how excellent we are. "Wow!" impressions matter because people matter. What they think matters. What they believe matters. What they want matters. What they need matters.
First — Mark L. Waltz

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere. — Dan Harmon

The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images. — Luigi Ghirri

The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner. — John Stuart Mill

Every individual is unique with unique talents. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think I knew even then it would be my maps that would take me across the world, to places and people unknown and into cultures otherwise closed to me. In mapping them I would come to know them a little and at times my very eagerness pained me. — Julie Haydon

The meaning that i am trying to render through my work is a verification of how it is still possible to desire and face a path of knowledge, to be able finally to distinguish the precise identity of man, things, life, from the image of man, things and life. — Luigi Ghirri

When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God. — Beth Moore

Asked why we should strive to know God, my answer would be selfish: I want to be a creator. This is the ultimate promise of spirituality, that you can become the author of your own existence, the maker of personal destiny. Your brain is already performing this service for you unconsciously. — Deepak Chopra

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph. — Luigi Ghirri

We think if we choose to do only good, then we are only good. — Marissa Meyer

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth. — Yukio Mishima

The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light. — Luigi Ghirri

Any photographed human being is always a photograph. — Luigi Ghirri

Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation. — Luigi Ghirri

Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle. — Walt Disney

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. — Antoine Rivarol

It is always now. — Sam Harris

The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face. — John Fowles

The Guardian loved her. There was no other reason for it. None. He'd given his own freedom, his life, for Lydia. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying. — Lillie Langtry