Lartigue Quotes & Sayings

Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category. — Vince Aletti

One shouldn't be only two photographers but thousands. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer. — Jennifer Doudna

Monday night, I miscarried. Just as the doctor explained, I took the pill that afternoon and by sometime in the wee hours of the morning, I miscarried. Vic was there with me for support. — Jessica N. Watkins

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

What's so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven't even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter. — Pat Paulsen

Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another. — Craig Venter

The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I think just about everything has been tackled, but it may be that things will be done again, only better and differently. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I'm a producer first, and I know music, so I can jump on any song, whether it's pop or urban, without changing me. Whatever I do, I'm gonna make it classic. — Juicy J

Death is the end of every worldly pain. — Geoffrey Chaucer

It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible path by Smith and Ricardo and the British classical tradition, which is 'objectivist' - values are in inherent in production. — Murray Rothbard

Despite all claims to the contrary, we have not been called by God to be inspectors of others production or quality of 'fruit'. — R. Alan Woods

There's plenty of blame to go around. But without them, I would not have been part of a larger plot to overthrow the Capitol or had the wherewithal to do it. — Suzanne Collins

Only God writes great non-fiction. — E.C. Lartigue

People who shout so loud, my lords, do nothing; the only men I fear are silent men — Oscar Wilde

Christ on a pus-dripping syphilitic camel, — Ian Tregillis

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue