Welpott Quotes & Sayings

Part of the fascination that photography holds is its ability to unlock secrets kept even from ourselves. Like dreams, the photograph can uncork a heady bouquet of recognition which can escape into the cognitive world. — Jack Welpott

I think when you're photographing - when anybody's photographing another person in a private situation, it's a kind of a seduction but it's not always a sexual seduction ... I feel like when Jack [Welpott] was doing it, it was a sexual seduction and when I was doing it, it was more of a psychological seduction in order to get them to cooperate with me ... Not because I wanted them to spread their legs or ... be, you know, Wanna sleep with me? , or whatever. — Judy Dater

I went through a long period when I thought my photographs were not visible - on the wall, but not visible. — Jack Welpott

Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well. — Jack Welpott

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it. — Mason Cooley

...grief.
If you eat too much of it, you want more, you can never get enough. — Ai

Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by the power of photography to strip away the bark of the mind and reveal the visceral workings underneath. — Jack Welpott

Be smart and take your pert little ass out the door and away from danger.
Pert little ass? Frowning, she looked behind herself. From what she could see, her ass - pert or otherwise - looked nonexistent thanks to the shape of her skirt. — Lori Foster

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum — George Bernard Shaw

When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does. — Jack Welpott

The first time he tapped her toe she thought it happened by accident. The second time, she kicked him. — Rogenna Brewer

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other. — Jack Welpott

There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today. — Ted Nugent

As long as you hold onto wanting something from the outside, you will be dissatisfied because there is a part of you that you are till not totally owning...How can you be a complete and fulfilled if you believe that you cannot own this part [of yourself] until somebody else does something?...If it is conditional, it is not totally yours. — A.H. Almaas