"It is the way to educate your eye……" — Walker Evans
"It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop."
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26 Quotes by Walker Evans
Walker Evans has 26 quotes on this site.
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It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
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The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by…
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Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography…
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Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the…
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I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has…
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That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
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Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty
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What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is…
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Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate…
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I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't…
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Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics…
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More Eavesdrop Quotes
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one of 28 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
— Lynda Barry
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If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go…
— Lynda Barry
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The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a…
— Sherrod Brown
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Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor,…
— Bram Cohen
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If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to…
— Robert Breault
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I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city.
— Elayne Boosler
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A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license…
— Bill Moyers
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I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations…
— Meg Cabot
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I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping…
— Janet Evanovich
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It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.
— Jon McGregor
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
— Walker Evans
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Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing…
— Mindy Kaling
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