Beautiful Quotes - Page 17

• I've heard what people are saying, and it's a very weird thing. They're going into a realm where it's somethign that's almost ugly, rather than something that can be so beautiful.

  James Haven

  People, Ugly, Weird Things

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• Old St Petersburg remains a beautiful stage set but to the Russians it is not what Rome is to the Italians or Paris to the French. The decisions are made in the Kremlin. The city of Peter remains a museum, open from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

  Joseph Wechsberg

  Museums, Rome, Pms

  Joseph Wechsberg (1977). “In Leningrad”, Doubleday Books

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• The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing.

  Lillian Bassman

  Hands, Looks, Movement

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• The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly. Take a photographer like Mapplethorpe. Every single photograph of his is about classical notions of beauty, of young beautiful black men, young beautiful women, and he selects subjects who are essentially interesting and good-looking and extremely physical. I can't stand them.

  John Coplans

  Men, Views, Interesting

  John Coplans (2002). “A Body”, powerHouse Books

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• I'm interested in loving, beautiful, sexy images... I also want the images to be a turn on, create an adrenaline high, a rush of desire so intense that the act of looking is sexual.

  Tee Corinne

  Sexy, Desire, Want

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• One problem that I kept in mind was that in avoiding the BODY BEAUTIFUL as exhibited in the pseudo-lesbians of David Hamilton or J. Frederick Smith, I ran the risk of reinforcing negative myths, i.e. that lesbians are women who cannot attract men because they do not conform to society's standard of beauty.

  Tee Corinne

  Men, Risk, Mind

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• There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

  Roy DeCarava

  People, Black, Dignity

  "Roy DeCarava obituary" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2009.

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• There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.

  Luc Delahaye

  Photography, Self, World

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• To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my tripod, so I worry that the landscape may disappear the next second and I don't stop keeping an eye on it while I get prepared. Then, when pressing the shutter, I hold my breath. These moments are the greatest joys in my life, as if I were undressing the most beautiful woman in the world - that is, if she will allow herself be undressed. If the photo is a success, it means that she was willing. If not, it has been a lovely dream.

  Mario Giacomelli

  Running, Dream, Mean

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• [My mother] died a few months ago, and when she was dead I kissed her lips. For me it was a beautiful moment. From then on I started living with her, asking her from time to time if she was alright, if she was pleased with me. But these things are far greater than photography, and I probably shouldn't be speaking about them.

  Mario Giacomelli

  Photography, Mother, Months

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• Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated because every stoppage of time refers to the motion of time.

  Michael Light

  Age, Degrees, Manipulation

  "100 Suns and the Nuclear Sublime". Interview with Robert Hirsch, lightresearch.net. July / August 2005.

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• I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations.... I have always been interested in everyman - average, ordinary people in everyday situations.

  Ray Metzker

  Average, People, Everyday

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• Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a beautiful and delightful thing. There is nothing more intimate than really looking at someone.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Thinking, Looks, Opinion

  "Exclusive: Q&A with Visual Artist Turned Filmmaker Laurel Nakadate". Interview with Danielle Kourtesis, flavorwire.com. July 23, 2009.

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• Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas.

  Shirin Neshat

  Gun, Hands, Ideas

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• My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, Look at this - Look at that. I think that taking pictures must be my way of asking people to Look at this - Look at that. If my photographs make the viewer feel what I did when I first took them - Isn't this funny... terrible... moving... beautiful? - then I've accomplished my purpose.

  Ruth Orkin

  Mother, Moving, Thinking

  Ruth Orkin (1981). “A Photo Journal”, Studio

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• I still dream of the day when I will take a photograph so beautiful that it can be called love.

  Jan Saudek

  Dream, Photograph, Stills

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• Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.

  Taryn Simon

  Photography, Quality, Fiction

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• I've had moments where I've felt like I was on another planet because I saw something beautiful. To me, taking pictures is being alive.

  Mario Sorrenti

  Alive, Saws, Moments

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• Some of the most beautiful things that have happened to me in my life have been things that I couldn't explain.

  Alanis Morissette

  Beautiful Things, Happened, Has Beens

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• The next song I wrote in Paris years ago in a dream. So I didn't really write it, the universe wrote it. And that's what I believe about music, I believe it belongs to the universe, it comes from there and it's this beautiful energy that we share that transcends normal flash existence and that we inspire each other through.

  Serj Tankian

  Dream, Song, Believe

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• Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

  Plato

  Desire, Wonder, Knows

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• You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Ugly

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• Faith is a gift of God. Without it there would be no life. And our work, to be fruitful, and to be all for God, and to be beautiful, has to be built of faith. Faith in Christ who has said, I was hungry, I was naked, I was sick, and I was homeless, and you ministered to me! On these words of His all our work is based.

  Mother Teresa

  Sick, Naked, Would Be

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• People are hungry for something more beautiful, for something greater than people round about can give. There is a great hunger for God in the world today. Everywhere there is much suffering, but there is also great hunger for God and love for each other.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Giving, Suffering

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• Our stories are all stories of searching. We search for a good self to be and for good work to do. We search to become human in a world that tempts us always to be less than human or looks to us to be more. We search to love and to be loved. And in a world where it is often hard to believe in much of anything, we search to believe in something holy and beautiful and life-transcending that will give meaning and purpose to the lives we live.

  Frederick Buechner

  Believe, Self, Giving

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Sep 13, 2013

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