Peter Beard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.
-- Peter Beard

#Looks #Benefits #Chance
I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.
-- Peter Beard

#Crazy #Thinking #Machines
I am a parasite off beauty.
-- Peter Beard

#Parasites
Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.
-- Peter Beard

#Secret #Diaries #Useless
The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
-- Peter Beard

#World #Scabs #Whole
Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers - they overlap, you can't always tell who did it. I don't really even like photography all that much. I just think it's so overdone.
-- Peter Beard

#Photography #Fashion #Thinking
I had some highlight moments in the early '60s when I used to do a lot of rubbings. I used Afta; it's an amazing chemical. If you pour it on something and rub, you get amazing results. Before that, I used lighter fluid and, well, I've always liked blood. Everybody thinks I am very sick, but the thing is, blood is better than any ink or paint.
-- Peter Beard

#Thinking #Sick #Moments
I used to do horseback riding in the South, and it was just things I'd be pasting. I think my diaries was just an infantile desire to record things. I liked saving things instead of writing.
-- Peter Beard

#Writing #Thinking #Desire
Being so pathetic, I don't read. I just ... do things - writing out interviews you can't read, on pictures of footprints and things like that. I kind of like the idea of nailing the thing down and not really showing too much about it. There's just so much you can take for collage nowadays.
-- Peter Beard

#Writing #Kind #Footprint

I don't look at myself as suffering.
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.
Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances

Peter Beard famous quotes

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