Ron Galella famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Celebrities were quick to understand that paparazzi could make icons of them. The more a star is followed and admired, the greater the adulation. So they raised the stakes, sometimes hiding when they don't even need to. Today, stardom is more ephemeral and it's photography that gives them their celebrity status.
-- Ron Galella

#Photography #Stars #Icons
My style is the paparazzi approach which is spontaneous, unrehearsed, off-guard. The beauty I'm after is inherent, more natural. Genuine emotions, real emotions, that's what I look for.
-- Ron Galella

#Real #Style #Looks
We had a love-hate relationship. Jackie knew exactly what she could get out of one of my photos.
-- Ron Galella

#Hate #Jackie #Love Hate
My job is thick with risks, threats, occasional violence and sometimes the necessary folly that sometimes courts humiliation and ridicule. But I don't care. I see myself as the dean of American paparazzi.
-- Ron Galella

#Jobs #Risk #Care
I got in my car and followed [Marlon Brando] down to Chinatown, and got about twelve shots. Brando called me over and said, What else do you want that you don't have already? And I said, I'd like a picture without the sunglasses. He said no and punched me right in the jaw, It was so fast I didn't see it coming. Blood was gushing out of my mouth. I drove to Bellevue. The jawbone and five teeth were broken... To this day he has scars on his knuckles from my teeth.
-- Ron Galella

#Blood #Broken #Car
In our world, love, sex, music, and dance are all integrated into one experience. Love, and the arts of music and dance go together.
-- Ron Galella

#Art #Sex #Our World

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.
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.
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
Iâ€™m elated. I guess itâ€™s better late than never. Welcome to the 21st century.Â Itâ€™s fantastic. I love Dior, and Rihanna is very much one of my style icons. Iâ€™m happy they got there in the end.Â I adore her style.Â She loves fashion, sheâ€™s unafraid. She uses her imagination, which is something we should all strive to do.
In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.
In the United States those bits of our history that remain are paved over, sanitized, packaged for easy consumption. At those sites not already lost to commercial development, we walk between velvet ropes, herded by guides, warned not to touch. Our icons are preserved under glass, their magic demystified in glossy brochures.
The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

Ron Galella famous quotes

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