Kertesz Photographer Quotes & Sayings

Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart. — Patricia Briggs

You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die. — Bill Vaughan

I think it's real easy to look at what's out there and get discouraged. I was never the best-looking guy, I was never the Tom Cruise-looking guy. I think the biggest thing I can say is, 'Don't compare yourself.' — Craig Sheffer

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest. — Xun Zi

The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah. — Karen Elliott House

Photography is my only language. — Andre Kertesz

She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the tangledness of farewells and all the baggage they brought with them. But now, looking at Deb, I realized what else I'd given up: knowing for sure that someone was going to miss me. What happened to goodbye, Michael in Westcott had written on my Ume page. I was pretty sure I knew, now. It had been packed away in a box of its own, trying to be forgotten, until I really needed it. Until now. — Sarah Dessen

Rage, rage against the dying light — Dylan Thomas

I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done. — Andre Kertesz

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time. — Andre Kertesz

Spirituality is natural, personal, and rooted in direct experience. There is no such thing as secondhand spirituality. No one else's spirituality can serve as substitute for your own. — David Cowan

For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography. — Andre Kertesz

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book. — Jane Austen

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me
whether what I have thought has already been
thought before me by another. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. — Lois McMaster Bujold