"I drifted into photography like one drifts into……" — Philippe Halsman
"I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money."
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15 Quotes by Philippe Halsman
Philippe Halsman has 15 quotes on this site.
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The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.
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Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was…
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A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what…
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I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man…
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A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than…
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When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask…
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In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his…
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I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to…
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Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love goddess.
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The head of the photographer is more important than his camera
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Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the…
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I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture…
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should…
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How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many…
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I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission…
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all…
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After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New…
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While I was watching you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind as summer clouds drift across the…
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Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These…
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We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.
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I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed…
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They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into…
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