Nina Berman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached.
-- Nina Berman

#Photography #Commitment #People
I think matching up Vietnam vets with these Iraqi vets would be a really great thing. When soldiers say only other soldiers can understand, that's what they're talking about: what it means to kill.
-- Nina Berman

#Mean #Thinking #Talking

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.
Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.
There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Nina Berman famous quotes

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