Robert J. Flaherty famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
It's not the kind of tuna that I eat.
Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.
She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

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