Rondal Partridge famous quotes

Ansel [Adams] always jumped over the fence to photograph, walked past the garbage. He always looked to get an immaculate view, and I spent my life stepping back to include the garbage in my photographic view.
-- Rondal Partridge

#Past #Views #Garbage

You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.
-- Rondal Partridge

#Meaningful #Animal #Ties

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.
-- Rondal Partridge

#Fashion #Thinking #People

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.
-- Rondal Partridge

#Sarcastic #Photographer #Pessimist

I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point.
-- Rondal Partridge

#Artist #Thinking

I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be so familiar to everyone that they don't immediately appreciate or value it.
-- Rondal Partridge

#Abiding Faith #Appreciate #Facts

Photography is a life of learning. That's all I want from photography. I don't want the money. I don't need the fame. I don't need the admiration. I'd like all of those things, but I don't need them. Because what I get from photographing is learning. I have spent my life learning by looking through a lens.
-- Rondal Partridge

#Photography #Lenses #Needs

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.
-- Rondal Partridge

#Photography #Art #Government

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.

My car's my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We're in the most comfortable seats because we're not facing each other, but sitting side by side. We don't look at each other, but instead do so only when we want to. We're allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views. Silence doesn't seem heavy or difficult. Nobody serves anybody. And many other aspects. One most important thing is that it transports us from one place to another.

Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.

It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.