David Alan Harvey Quotes

• Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

  David Alan Harvey

  Photography, Looks, Photographer

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• Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.

  David Alan Harvey

  Photography, Mirrors, Looks

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• The whole thrust in my life right now is spinning my assignments around and making them work in a more personal way (...) I wanted to go back and do the original thing: one camera, one lens, one film. You really have to put yourself in a position of danger to be creative.

  David Alan Harvey

  Creative, Way, Spinning

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• So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?

  David Alan Harvey

  Religious, People, Care

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• It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.

  David Alan Harvey

  Live Life, Want

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• Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

  David Alan Harvey

  Eye, Reality, Appreciate

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• The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality.

  David Alan Harvey

  Reality

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• Most of the photographs I make are personal pictures and never end up in print. Even the magazines I shoot for on assignment publish very few of the actual selects. Sometimes these personal pictures will end up in a book of my work. Oftentimes, however, they are simply photographs which I hope resonate, yet rarely find a publication home. I do a lot of personal work in Rio de Janeiro, and this of a parkour artist making a jump on Ipanema Beach is such a moment.

  David Alan Harvey

  Beach, Book, Home

  "The Most Extraordinary Photos You've Never Seen" by Elizabeth Griffin, www.esquire.com. November 13, 2014.

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• Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available. Which should we have faith in?

  David Alan Harvey

  Thinking, Logical Ideas, Have Faith

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• The nazis slaughtered millions because they dehumanized their victims... but when it comes to dehumanizing victims the most useful and most widely used tool throughout history is, of course, religion.

  David Alan Harvey

  Tools, Nazi, Victim

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• In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund

  David Alan Harvey

  Shooting, Spirit, Photographer

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• Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.

  David Alan Harvey

  Abortion, Typical, Adults

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• The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?

  David Alan Harvey

  Comforting, Important, Answers

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