David Doubilet famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.
-- David Doubilet

#Discovery #Voyages #Voyages Of Discovery
Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.
-- David Doubilet

#Photography #Dream #Looks
What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.
-- David Doubilet

#Photography #Voice #Giving
Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo.
-- David Doubilet

#Thinking #Buttons #Pushing
My passion is to open people's eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the unconvinced among us that the oceans are fragile and finite.
-- David Doubilet

#Photography #Ocean #Passion
We can produce imagery to share the beauty of the oceans and what is there to protect. We can also expose the truths about overharvest, climate change, and habitat loss to give oceans a voice.
-- David Doubilet

#Ocean #Loss #Voice
I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.
-- David Doubilet

#Honor #I Have Learned #Educate
As the oceans go, so do we.
-- David Doubilet

#Ocean

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.
Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.
Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.
Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride.
Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.
What Flaubert refers to as the â€œmÃ©lancholies du voyageâ€ is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives.
There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.
We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite as Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, all of whom amply compensate a lifetime's rereadings, we are in the pragmatic dilemma of excluding something else each time we read or reread extensively.

David Doubilet famous quotes

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