David Douglas Duncan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There's nobody between you and the print. Nobody. It's you and the subject and the final print. And if you get it published that way, you've said it.
-- David Douglas Duncan

#Finals #Way #Said
Photographer's advice: Stand in the right place.
-- David Douglas Duncan

#Advice #Photographer #Right Place
Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.
-- David Douglas Duncan

#Running #People #Guy
I never felt in competition with anybody in war photography. You're lucky to get your ***** in and out again. It's as simple as that. It's the easiest photography in the world to shoot somebody who's been shot up. It doesn't take a genius. That's easy. The only thing you need to know is your photography. Get in and if you're lucky get out. And get as close as you can get.
-- David Douglas Duncan

#Photography #War #Simple
My objective always is to stay as close as possible and shoot the pictures as if through the eyes of the infantryman, the Marine, or the pilot. I wanted to give the reader something of the visual perspective and feeling of the guy under fire, his apprehensions and sufferings, his tensions and releases, his behavior in the presence of threatening death.
-- David Douglas Duncan

#Eye #Marine #Fire
It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun.
-- David Douglas Duncan

#Fun #Simple #Typewriters
I would question any fee. Let them know you're comparison shopping among several lenders.
-- David Douglas Duncan

#Shopping #Fees #Lenders

I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.
After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.
What part of Canada are you from, honey?" "THE LEFT PART," said Jay.
I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason onlyâ€¦.Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks,
As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

David Douglas Duncan famous quotes

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