People Quote by Miranda July Download Open image “Maybe that's why people take pictures of themselves, to avoid being described.” — Miranda July ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare People
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness. — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're… — Katy Grannan Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
People assume that a self-portrait is narcissistic and you're trying to reveal something about yourself: fantasies or autobiographical information. In fact, none of my… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful. — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
“Just consider a child who, absorbed in play, forgets himself—this is the moment to take a snapshot; when you wait until he notices that… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality. — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different… — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum. — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one of them.… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an artist and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“We were anxious to begin our life as people who had no people. And it was easy to find an apartment because we had… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I'm always the kind of friend or girlfriend who suggests, when there's some cataclysmic problem in the relationship, I'm like, "Well, maybe we can… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I wrestle my fears with every big decision I make. Ultimately, maybe all that wrestling does is make you sick of your own thoughts,… — Miranda July 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
