Meatyard Ralph Quotes & Sayings

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

It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads. — Jon Porter

Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life. — Banana Yoshimoto

Sometimes the truth was like a band-aid in need to removal. — Marshall Thornton

One of the things that's crucial to me about love is that it has to be in the moment. — Todd May

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 too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or by keeping up with modern trends anything that will drag in a few more people. — Robertson Davies

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

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

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

Like sterling silver, love will tarnish unless it is polished with daily applications of interest, involvement, and expressions of love. — Zig Ziglar

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness. — Nigella Lawson

I am not a part of this home any longer. I am a tiny thing created by indifferent scientists. I am an experiment, a mechanical bee placed near the hive. The real bees were happy being bees until I came along and gave them all the false information that destroyed their little lives. — James Tate

You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable. — Peter Thiel

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

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