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Elements Quote by Sarah Moon

“Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.” quote by Sarah Moon — Download Open image

“Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.”

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Elements Giving Narrative Photography Should Stories Want

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For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.

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I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.

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I never photograph reality.

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Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary.

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To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.

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I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

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My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you…

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I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doing shows. No…

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I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some…

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I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element,…

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I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

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Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less…

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I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement…

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Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual…

Kenneth Branagh

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Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or…

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I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more complex and more textured, more real. Good writing unsettles, destroys both the author and the reader. From my perspective, there always has to be a tension between the writer and the monolithic elements of…

The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too…

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To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

Naseeruddin Shah

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