Pedro Meyer famous quotes

At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening.
-- Pedro Meyer

#Grief #Way #Moments

I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck... So the moment I was offered [digital] tools to bend the shape of the image into my choices, and not those of lady luck, I was hooked.
-- Pedro Meyer

#Choices #Luck #Would Be

Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment.
-- Pedro Meyer

#Real #Moments #Rich

Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you, illuminate you, put make up on you or use a filter, am I not manipulating reality? The only difference is that now I can do it from the computer in the postclick instead of the preclick. If I decide to photograph something instead of something else, I also manipulate reality. Of course a photograph can lie or commit abuse, but it always could.
-- Pedro Meyer

#Photography #Lying #Reality

I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything.
-- Pedro Meyer

#Authority #Obligation

The photograph as an objective representation of reality simply does not exist. The photograph does not explain to you what is going on to the left or to the right or above or below the frame. Oftentimes, it doesn't even explain to you what is going on inside the frame.
-- Pedro Meyer

#Reality #Doe #Photograph

The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the era of analog photography.
-- Pedro Meyer

#Photography #Tools #Eras

[Photography] is the non-complacence of the eye. To practice my right to look is also a critical attitude. If I stare at you, I will make you uncomfortable, and culturally we have a difficulty of staring and being stared at.
-- Pedro Meyer

#Photography #Attitude #Eye

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.

I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?

She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.

Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.