Provman Quotes & Sayings

There was in it a moment of indignity, nearly comedic - a feeling that I had lost my balance. But I had not. — Elizabeth Berg

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends. — Charles Darwin

Incidentally, part of a photographer's gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you're doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You've got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate. — Walker Evans

Lovers are food for each other to sustain their lives — Munia Khan

I felt as if I were living alone in an extremely well-cared-for ruin. — Haruki Murakami

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization. — Arthur Keith

Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines. — Yukihiro Matsumoto

Why is it that we feel bad when "all" we can do for a person is pray for them? We feel like we need to work to help, but remember: prayer is the work. — Dillon Burroughs

The paradox of being a professional artist. How we spend our lives trying to express ourselves well, but we have nothing to tell. We want creativity to be a system of cause and effect. Results. Marketable product. We want dedication and discipline to equal recognition and reward. We get on our art school treadmill, our graduate program for a master's in fine arts, and practice, practice, practice. With all our excellent skills, we have nothing special to document. .... Nothing pisses us off more than when some strung-out drug addict, a lazy bum, or a slobbering pervert creates a masterpiece. As if by accident. Some idiot who's not afraid to say what they really love. — Chuck Palahniuk

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences. — Kim Weston

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely. — Virginia Woolf