George Rodger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively. Like watching from the audience a play you already know by heart.
-- George Rodger

#Heart #Play #Affinity
I may juggle the composition, as the strength of a picture is in the composition. Or I may play with the light. But I never interfere with the subject. The subject has to fall into place on its own and, if I don't like it, I don't have to print it
-- George Rodger

#Fall #Light #Play
It wasn't even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could look at the horror of Belsen --4000 dead and starving lying around-- and think only of a nice photographic composition, I knew something had happened to me and I had to stop. I felt I was like the people running the camp --it didn't mean a thing.
-- George Rodger

#Running #Nice #Lying
I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error.
-- George Rodger

#Cutting #Errors #Self

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.
If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,
It is a great bond to dislike the same things.
I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess.

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