Meatyard Quotes & Sayings

I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer. — Ralph Eugene Meatyard

It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make a record sound good. — Grieves

Time made me stronger, you're no longer on my mind — Boyz II Men

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination. — Ralph Eugene Meatyard

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees — Philip Roth

Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at? — Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Magic singers proclaiming hope and despair in the dark. — Charles Frazier

I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time. — Ralph Eugene Meatyard

We all need something to soften the sharp edges. To give us balance. Otherwise, I think we'd find ourselves stumbling around in the dark like lost souls. — Karen White

Leo," Jason said, "you're weird."
"Yeah, you tell me that a lot." Leo grinned. "But if you don't remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes ... ! — Rick Riordan

Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal. — Thomas Boswell

Responding to Wright's critique, Hurston claimed that she had wanted at long last to write a black novel, and "not a treatise on sociology." It is this urge that resonates in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Beloved, and in Walker's depiction of Hurston as our prime symbol of "racial health - a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings, a sense that is lacking in so much black writing and literature." In a tradition in which male authors have ardently denied black literary paternity, this is a major development, one that heralds the refinement of our notion of tradition: Zora and her daughters are a tradition-within-the-tradition, a black woman's voice. — Zora Neale Hurston

Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them. — Mark Victor Hansen

Through trial, I've learned to be myself, and strive not to please man but to please God. — Susan Elliott

I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to a form for the surreal. I have been called a preacher - but, in reality, I'm more generally philosophical. I have never made an abstracted photograph without content. An educated background in Zen influences all of my photographs. It has been said that my work resembles, more closely than any photographer, Le Douanier Rousseau - working in a fairly isolated area and feeding mostly on myself - I feel that I am a primitive photographer. — Ralph Eugene Meatyard

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety. — Don Cupitt

I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done. — Ralph Eugene Meatyard

If [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real ... [it] also can be, I think, so heartfelt that you almost can get a pang of compassion for the thing. — Ralph Eugene Meatyard

I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had to learn to see No-focus from the beginning. — Ralph Eugene Meatyard