Gilles Peress famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.
-- Gilles Peress

#Inspirational
I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.
-- Gilles Peress

#Photography #Gathering #Care
Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.
-- Gilles Peress

#Photography #Reality #Language
I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas; and I'm also proposing to you that you can derive ideas without going through words. So I'm forcing you to really look. And this process of looking, it's like a new set of ideas that are being proposed to you.
-- Gilles Peress

#Photography #Ideas #Looks
I am bad at memory - this is why I shoot pictures.
-- Gilles Peress

#Memories
We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic posting of images but the democratic interpretation of images.
-- Gilles Peress

#Mean #Age #Entering
I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.
-- Gilles Peress

#Memories #Thinking #Collective Memory
[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?
-- Gilles Peress

#Reality #Space #World

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
Freedom is never given; it is won.
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.
Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Gilles Peress famous quotes

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