Tod Papageorge famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.
-- Tod Papageorge

#Remembrance #Fiction #Surprise
If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.
-- Tod Papageorge

#Artist #Ideas #Vision
My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty that, in my experience, is generally deficient compared to the mad swirling possibilities that our dear common world kicks up at us on a regular basis.
-- Tod Papageorge

#Mad #Imagination #World
I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I don't really believe in it, particularly now. A picture's not the world, but a new thing.
-- Tod Papageorge

#Photography #Believe #Fiction
It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries.
-- Tod Papageorge

#Snapshots #Photographer #Charm
Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.
-- Tod Papageorge

#Dog #Dumb #Faithful
[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).
-- Tod Papageorge

#Photograph #Passing #Dross
I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.
-- Tod Papageorge

#Photography #Believe #Writing

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.
Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.

Tod Papageorge famous quotes

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