"Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through."

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Source : "Edward Burtynsky's best shot". Interview with Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2008.

Edward Burtynsky

#Photography Quotes #People Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.”
“The simple questions are always the hardest ones.”
“It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.”
“I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs to do. It's basic practicing of the basic elements. I try to practice like a well rounded regiment of things where I can kind of do whatever I wanna do and I also have to practice the actual songs to keep that under my fingers as well.”
“Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'”
“We forget weâ€™re mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.”
“Iâ€™m â€œexceptionalâ€- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of â€œgiftedâ€ and â€œdeprivedâ€ (which used to mean â€œbrightâ€ and â€œretardedâ€) and as soon as â€œexceptionalâ€ begins to mean anything to anyone theyâ€™ll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesnâ€™t mean anything to anybody. â€œExceptionalâ€ refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life Iâ€™ve been exceptional.”
“He who is ignorant of Motion, says Aristotle , is necessarily ignorant of all natural things. ...Not only was he entirely in the dark respecting the Laws, he was completely wrong in his conception of the nature of Motion. ...He thought that every body in motion naturally tends to rest.”

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