"Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no……" — Joel Meyerowitz
"Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record."
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14 Quotes by Joel Meyerowitz
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I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it…
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We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures…
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I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of…
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I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that…
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Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.
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Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later…
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They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you…
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It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t…
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I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres,…
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You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in…
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Photography is about being exquisitely present.
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I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some…
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More History Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature…
— Aristotle
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
— David Attenborough
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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