Stefan Kanfer famous quotes

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.
-- Stefan Kanfer

#Powerful #Black And White #Strange

...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.
-- Stefan Kanfer

#Nice #Use #Telephones

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
-- Stefan Kanfer

#Men #Poet

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
-- Stefan Kanfer

#Grief #Sadness #Loss

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.
-- Stefan Kanfer

#Privacy #Aphorism #Posing

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.
-- Stefan Kanfer

#Opera #Stuff #Soap

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.
-- Stefan Kanfer

#Powerful #Two #Essentials

The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones came out all right. My favorite picture of Marilyn hangs always on the wall in my office. It was taken on the little patio of her Hollywood house.

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll pr a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.

We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads,

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.