"That's why I felt so at home when……" — Herb Ritts
"That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal."
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27 Quotes by Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts has 27 quotes on this site.
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Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.
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Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
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Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.
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I like form and shape and strength in pictures.
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Each time I did assignments or editorials, I realized that I wanted to do something more. I saw that it…
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Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light,…
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Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
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And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural…
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For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.
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I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or…
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I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but…
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I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience.…
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More Africa Quotes
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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