Dirk Bogarde famous quotes

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The camera can photograph thought.
-- Dirk Bogarde

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Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.
-- Dirk Bogarde

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The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.
-- Dirk Bogarde

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I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.
-- Dirk Bogarde

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It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.
-- Dirk Bogarde

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So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.
-- Dirk Bogarde

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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.
In a photograph a personâ€™s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.
It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.
A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
A photograph is a biography of a moment.

Dirk Bogarde famous quotes

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