Christophe Agou famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.
-- Christophe Agou

#Photography #What Matters #Two
With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted, I trust my inner eye, the heart. Everything, absolutely everything, becomes visible. Appearances, disappearances, nothing seems of secondary importance to me.
-- Christophe Agou

#Eye #Heart #Glowing
When I use the camera, I often feel likeI know part of the people or places I come in contact with.
-- Christophe Agou

#People #Cameras #Use
The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed.
-- Christophe Agou

#Heart #Eye #Easy
The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your armâ€™s length.
-- Christophe Agou

#Distance #Arms #Length
Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth,
-- Christophe Agou

#Honesty #Certain
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.
-- Christophe Agou

#Photography #Art #Beneath The Surface

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.
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™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.
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.
Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.
When you can show concern about what matters to your customer, that's Business to Customer Loyalty, and you can bet on it, you've just acquired a customer for life.
As long as you're feeling good with your weight and the way you look, that's what matters.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Christophe Agou famous quotes

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