Christopher Anderson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

  • To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.

  • 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.

  • Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.

  • Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

  • I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

  • That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)

  • I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

  • Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

  • I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.