Amy Arbus famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When I ask to photograph someone, it is because I love the way they look and I think I make that clear. I'm paying them a tremendous compliment. What I'm saying is, I want to take you home with me and look at you for the rest of my life.
-- Amy Arbus

#Home #Thinking #Looks
Richard Avedon taught me that if you go into a photo session and come out with what you had hoped for, itâ€™s a failure. You need to be surprised if you want it to be magical.
-- Amy Arbus

#Needs #Want #Taught
My mother's work has been an enormous influence on me, but not literally. By that I mean, my photographs don't look like hers. That makes it difficult to compare them. What they do share is an emotional intensity.
-- Amy Arbus

#Mother #Mean #Emotional
It's entirely ridiculous and hopeless to try to compete with somebody who made such a huge contribution to photography... I knew when I went into photography that I would be compared to my mother. I thought to myself, what can I do about that?
-- Amy Arbus

#Mother #Photography #Trying

Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Amy Arbus famous quotes

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