Newhall Quotes & Sayings

The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask. — Nancy Newhall

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. — Don DeLillo

Not even a cat was out. The rain surged down with a steady drone. It meant to harm New York and everyone there. The gutters could not contain it. Long ago they had despaired of the job and surrendered. But the rain paid no attention to them ... New York people never lived in houses or even in burrows. They inhabited cells in stone cliffs. They timed the cooking of their eggs by the nearest traffic light. If the light went wrong, so did the eggs ... — Barbara Newhall Follett

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world. — Beaumont Newhall

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form. — Beaumont Newhall

Perhaps the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will disappear and even our records be kept in images and sounds. — Nancy Newhall

At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives, that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction. The art of the photographer lies in using those connotations, as a poet uses the connotations of words and a musician the tonal connotations of sounds. — Nancy Newhall

What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do. - Nathan Phelps — Nathan Phelps

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is too soon to define the characteristic of the photographic style today, one common denominator, rooted in tradition, seems in the ascendancy. The direct use of the camera for what it can do best, and that is the revelation, interpretation, and discovery of the world of man and of nature. The greatest challenge to the photographer is to express the inner significance through the outward form. — Beaumont Newhall

Conservation is humanity caring for the future. — Nancy Newhall

Anything that makes you happy can make you sad. — Patrick Jones

The best way to convey meaning is to tell people what the information means to you yourself, he said. And he gave me three words to use to do that. "I am worried," I told Douglass. — Atul Gawande

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history. — Beaumont Newhall

The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask. — Nancy Wynne Newhall

My dreams are going through their death flurries. I thought they were all safely buried, but sometimes they stir in their grave, making my heartstrings twinge. I mean no particular dream, you understand, but the whole radiant flock of them together - with their rainbow wings, iridescent, bright, soaring, glorious, sublime. They are dying before the steel javelins and arrows of a world of Time and Money. — Barbara Newhall Follett

A friend is like an oreo, its not always that great, but it always gets better! — Erinn Westbrook

Saved for a far more glamorous doom, she was. — Barbara Newhall Follett

Let me introduce myself. My name is, uh, Kangaroo ... Kangaroo - Captain Kangaroo ... I'm the keeper here of the Treasure House. — Bob Keeshan

Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and the unfamiliar. His photographs, seen by millions, make momentary events and strange occurrences all over the world our common property. — Beaumont Newhall

I always sleep really well, particularly before a race, when the adrenaline's pumping. — Jenson Button

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing. — Beaumont Newhall

Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer - a record of things seen and experienced, moments in the flow of time, documents of significance to me, experiments in seeing. — Beaumont Newhall

How did one begin an adventure? Almost any road you took would lead there, if only you went on far enough. — Barbara Newhall Follett

As someone who has spent the last decade training young men and women for Christian service, I have been keen to help them see that the best kinds of ministry are, more often than not, long term and low key. I have tried to prepare them for a marathon, not a short, energetic sprint. In other words, to help them have a lifetime of sustainable sacrifice, rather than an energetic but brief ministry that quickly fades in exhaustion. — Christopher Ash

Ours was a city on fire with becoming, the suburbs reaching farther from the core by the week. — Kim Cooper

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy. — Beaumont Newhall

The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life. — Alexander Pope

To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox of some kind has frequently been helpful. For the photographer to free himself of the tyranny of the visual facts upon which he is utterly dependent, a paradox is the only possible tool. And the talisman paradox for unique photography is to work "the mirror with a memory" as if it were a mirage, and the camera is a metamorphosing machine, and the photograph as if it were a metaphor ... . Once freed of the tyranny of surfaces and textures, substance and form [the photographer] can use the same to pursue poetic truth" (Minor White, Newhall, 281). — Minor White

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually. — Beaumont Newhall