Posing Quotes

• To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Being Real

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

  Fanny Brice

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Posing is a performing art.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Art, Performing, Performing Arts

  Quoted inThe Guardian,1975.

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• Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

  Stella Benson

  Sometimes, Pretense

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

  Nicole Kidman

  Awkward, Standing

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• Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

  Quentin Crisp

  Jobs, Firsts, Understood

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1968.

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• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

  Fanny Brice

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Literature, Moments, Photograph

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• And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

  Cleo Moore

  Mirrors, Dabs, Use

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• Power posing! I do it before any appearance and recommend it to everyone. Gold!

  Sally Kohn

  Powerful, Gold, Appearance

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• The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reality, Answers, Literature

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 13, 2011

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• Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.

  Bob Goff

  Joy, Cynicism, Leashes

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Jan 06, 2014

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• On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

  Ade Edmondson

  Hysteria, Care, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man posing for a painting.

  David Hume

  Men, Empathy, Painting

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• There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Destiny, Feelings, Far Away

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Mr Rosewater”, p.23, Random House

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• I don’t have any problem posing naked. For me, it is only work.

  Baptiste Giabiconi

  Naked, Problem

  "Baptiste". Andy Warhol's Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 26, 2011.

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• Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

  Amy Winehouse

  Musician, Causes, Modeling

  "Amy Winehouse: Unplugged" by Polly Vernon, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 14, 2010.

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• Posing nude has to be one of my favorite things in the world.

  Jenna Jameson

  World, Favorites Things, My Favorite

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• Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

  John Dewey

  Mind, Mark, Skepticism

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.28, Indiana University Press

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• Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.

  Fred Ritchin

  Needs, Attention, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

  Bill Kreutzmann

  Mean, Play, Guy

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• My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.

  Donnie Yen

  Character, Action, Cop

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• You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

  Rod Stewart

  Music Business, Ifs

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• Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.

  Lana Del Rey

  Art, Real, Singers

  Song: Gods and Monsters, Album: Born to Die - The Paradise Edition, 2012

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• Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

  Jose Saramago

  Volunteer, World, This World

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