Sekula Quotes & Sayings

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history. — Bertrand Russell

Creativity is our only weapon against entropy — Dean Cavanagh

Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them. — Allan Sekula

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else. — Joseph P. Sekula

First of all, if you're setting up a new company, you want to try to find a brand that can work on a global basis. — Richard Branson

Freedom ... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility! — Joseph P. Sekula

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something ... was somewhere and took a picture. — Allan Sekula

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy. — Allan Sekula

The making of a human likeness on film is a political act. — Allan Sekula

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist. — Allan Sekula

I put on a good show. I strutted my new faith in high histrionic style. I believed what I was saying for the length of time I was saying it. I possessed a chameleon soul. — James Ellroy

How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs? — Allan Sekula

Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet ... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world. — Allan Sekula

A cowboy, a lawyer, and a mechanic watched Queen of the Damned," I murmured.
Warren - who had once, a long time ago, been a cowboy - snickered and wiggled his bare feet. "It could be the beginning of either a bad joke or a horror story."
"No," said Kyle, the lawyer, whose head was propped up on my thigh. "If you want a horror story, you have to start out with a werewolf, his gorgeous lover, and a walker. — Patricia Briggs

Both of my hands wove into her hair again and clutched at the soft curls. No matter how I tightened my grip, the strands kept falling from my fingers, a shower of water from the sky. — Katie McGarry

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball. — Bill Veeck

He was not a bad man, he was a good husband and father, but constant worry about his investments, about the money he earned, about the inevitable expenses that came with being a man of property had worn his nerves to a frazzle so that he was in a constant state of irritation — Mario Puzo

Patience is the deep acceptance that things should be exactly as they are. Most times that's easier said than done. - L. R. W. Lee — L.R.W. Lee

Jesus Christ is my savior, not the government. — Joseph P. Sekula

There is never an end, just a new beginning. — Joseph P. Sekula

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce. — Paulo Freire

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability. — Allan Sekula

The greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness. — Soren Kierkegaard

You can buy muscles, but you can't buy COJONES! — Bas Rutten