Sternfeld Joel Quotes & Sayings

With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know about the author and their background? What do I know about the subject?' — Joel Sternfeld

No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium to say what you need it to say. Because photography has a certain verisimilitude, it has gained a currency as truthful - but photographs have always been convincing lies. — Joel Sternfeld

I'm trying to take pictures of less and less. — Joel Sternfeld

I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau. — Joel Sternfeld

You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. — Joel Sternfeld

Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough. — Jeanette Winterson

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs. — Joel Sternfeld

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged. — Joel Sternfeld

When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work. — Joel Sternfeld

Not that she means anything by it, he knows. This is simply her lifelong habit of moderation at work, her need to tamp everything down to the routine, the modest, the tepid everyday. He understands the whole concept of boundaries, but there's a point where this mania for normalizing turns toxic. — Ben Fountain

The thing that grieves the heart of the Lord is when God doesn't see men who stand in defense of the truth — Sunday Adelaja

The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype. — Joel Sternfeld

You will face boredom and frustration your entire career as artists. You will be very frustrated seeking a voice/style that collectors can connect with. Once you accomplish that voice/style people are clamoring for, you will become bored doing it. — Jack White

All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society. — Joel Sternfeld

It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended. — Timothy Keller

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities. — Barbara Januszkiewicz

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. — Joel Sternfeld

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily. — Joel Sternfeld

I loved the High Line when it was just mine, when I was the only person up there, and I had a private park in New York City. I had to make an appointment to see it ... I'd walk around. I was all alone. — Joel Sternfeld

I knew how she smelled, and I knew how she acted in front of me, and I knew how she acted in front of others, and I knew that she liked Mountain Dew and adventure and dramatic gestures, and I knew that she was funny and smart and just generally more than the rest of us. But I didn't know what brought her here, or what kept her here, or what made her leave. — John Green

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all. — Jim Hinckley

For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - that's what I deeply loved. — Joel Sternfeld

I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame. — Joel Sternfeld

I can't change where I come from or what I've been through, so why should I be ashamed of what makes me, me? — Angie Thomas

Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. — Joel Sternfeld

No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer. — Joel Sternfeld

Photography has always been capable of manipulation. — Joel Sternfeld

There was no light at the end of the tunnel
or if there was, it was an oncoming train. — Terry Pratchett

I suspect, though I cannot prove, that in part this is the consequence of living in a world, including a mental world, so thoroughly saturated by the products of the media of mass communication. In such a world, what is done or happens in private is not done or has not happened at all, at least not in the fullest possible sense. — Theodore Dalrymple

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