Eadweard Muybridge famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.
-- Eadweard Muybridge

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If I fail, you will never hear of me again.
-- Eadweard Muybridge

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The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.
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).
Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
I want certain things out of life. I want my grand kids, my kids' kids, being able to inherit what I've worked so hard to build.
Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.
The only people I have been able to use are those who fought

Eadweard Muybridge famous quotes

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