La Chambre Claire Quotes & Sayings

Of course, the camera is a far more objective and trustworthy witness than a human being. We know that a Brueghel or Goya or James Ensor can have visions or hallucinations, but it is generally admitted that a camera can photograph only what is actually there, standing in the real world before its lens. — Hannah Hoch

[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine. — Amartya Sen

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors. — Morena Baccarin

Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by. — Marcus Aurelius

Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe. — William Zinsser

The idea of having faith in anything to a homeless teenager is just asinine. — J.L. Mac

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom. — Candice Bergen

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection. — Arthur Bloch

All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series. — Ian Botham

I had uncovered a widely held but overlooked attachment: our attachment to the view that every problem must have a solution. We delude ourselves that we can think our way out of a problem or we see it as a matter of finding the right person to advise us. We become beggars for our problems, asking numerous people for an opinion. So often, we refuse to relax until a problem is fixed, only to discover our inability to relax was most of the problem. — Sarah Napthali