Kratochvil Quotes & Sayings

We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act. — Michael Josephson

Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it. — Antonin Kratochvil

You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the other way around. — Antonin Kratochvil

She remembered the expression "watch how a man treats his mom and you know how he'll treat you" and now she knew why. — Madelyn March

Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities. — Austin Kleon

It is the things that happen to you which no one else knows about that make you important in life. — Suzanne Kingsbury

The WELLians were learning how to turn their private experiences into a public commodity. — Lee Siegel

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain. — Steven Erikson

Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries later, Hos poetry strikes many parallels
the experiences of war and exile and constant struggle
and his voice is similarly humane. This is rich and enlightening reading. — Sam Hamill

I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide everywhere, but the leaders kept boasting about their great achievements and bright tomorrows. I saw all this and tried to show it in my pictures as simply and straightforwardly as I could. All I wanted to do was record how all these poor people adapted to lies and suffering, how they got used to it, how, in fact they were bound to miss it when it was over. — Antonin Kratochvil

It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration. — Dave Matthews

Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it. — Charles Kingsley