James Van Der Zee famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I tried to see that every picture was better-looking than the person.
-- James Van Der Zee

#Persons
Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see
-- James Van Der Zee

#Taken #Artist #Cameras
It's a hard job to get the camera to see it like you see it. Sometimes you have it just the way you want it, and then you look in the camera and you don't have the balance. The main thing is to get the camera to see it the way you see it.
-- James Van Der Zee

#Jobs #Balance #Cameras
Somebody would come in and say, I never take a good picture. I'd say, Why not? You've got two eyes, a nose, and a mouth like everybody else.
-- James Van Der Zee

#Eye #Two #Why Not

You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.
I'm not the type of person that is forced.
Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.
When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees what is good, follows it, and when he sees evil, shuns it.
The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.
My mother's a pretty warm, open person.
My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.

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