People Quote by Irving Penn Download Open image “What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.” — Irving Penn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Photograph Really Rest Serenity State States Try Trying
I try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean. — Tom Gruber Copy Share Image
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
One thing that I try not to do is take pictures of homeless people or visibly low-income people - not because those folks aren't… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
I love to photograph people in their own environment. It offers clues to what's important in their lives. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots. — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares, big circles.… — Max Pam Copy Share Image
I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime. — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio,… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
