Peter C Bunnell famous quotes

Each image suggests an inner reality, a kind of scar of the past, a reflection of an act or an event once lived.
-- Peter C Bunnell

#Reflection #Past #Reality

You see in the photograph what you are.
-- Peter C Bunnell

#Photograph

In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary. Patient accumulation of facts and then speculation about their meaning is the nature of authorship in both mediums.
-- Peter C Bunnell

#Visionaries #Crafts #Facts

In photography, the issue of the integration of form and content is exceptionally difficult because of the widely held belief that photographs must be a kind of vicarious experience of the subject itself.
-- Peter C Bunnell

#Photography #Issues #Belief

The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like mirrors, with their polished metallic surfaces.
-- Peter C Bunnell

#Memories #Mirrors #Way

Full-color images lack the poignancy of monochrome... Black-and-white film inherently peels off interesting images from the world; it sees things we do not see, and thus insists on the existence of a phantom presence within reality, a world we cannot perceive.
-- Peter C Bunnell

#Black And White #Reality #Color

Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean.
-- Peter C Bunnell

#Mean #Opposites #Hints

Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.

Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.

What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.