Dennis Stock famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras, making the journey an enlightened experience. My emphasis has mainly been on affirmative reactions to human behavior and a strong attraction to the beauty in nature.
-- Dennis Stock

#Art #Strong #Journey
At the incredible pace most of us live, the arrested image becomes of maximum necessity.
-- Dennis Stock

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If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.
-- Dennis Stock

#Art #Suffering #Trying
The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many.
-- Dennis Stock

#Photography #People #Cameras
The goal for the photographer is be visually articulate.
-- Dennis Stock

#Goal #Photographer

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.
People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.
I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.
Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.
Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfÃªted but life-enhancing thoughts.

Dennis Stock famous quotes

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