Sternfeld Photography Quotes & Sayings

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

The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern. — Ian Rankin

Let yourself believe no means no and you give them the power to end your career. No dosen't mean no, it means not yet. — Maggie Stiefvater

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

Sometimes it takes one instance to have something snap in your mind - rearrange your head - and make you realize what has always been there. — E.L. Todd

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures ... it's like putting on dirty panties every day. — Brigitte Bardot

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know. — Steve Martin

She attempts to give the impression of untiring activity, thereby underlining her importance. Meanwhile her colleagues calmly and expertly get on with the job at hand. — Steven Bach

It is almost a cliche to speak of the professed atheist who cries out for help to God when he is in mortal danger. The profession of atheism is done by the conscious mind, but the subconscious still believes in God. — Serge Kahili King

I'm a Pilates person. It's great. I had a hip problem. I had a chronic back, a pinched nerve and a hip problem and it's completely solved all of it. I love it. It makes me feel like I'm taller. — Jennifer Aniston

The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace. — Pope John Paul II

Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.' — Abu Dawood

Happiness isn't something you work toward, the same way misery isn't something you work toward. — Brent Jones

You serve Christ by serving your husband, whether your husband deserves it or not. — Debi Pearl

When the heart is on fire, light comes from within. — Tania Silva

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn. — Ray Bradbury

Photography has always been capable of manipulation. — Joel Sternfeld