"There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and not just reactively, and whose approach is multi-faceted. We need more "useful photographers.""

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Fred Ritchin

#Needs Quotes #Stories Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.”
“The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.”
“Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.”
“He hadn't lost Grace. Because she'd never been his to lose in the first place.”

Source : Alexandra Potter (2005). “Do You Come Here Often?”, p.340, Simon and Schuster
“If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.”
“Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.”
“Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink”
“The computer needs...even by accident, offers incredible beautiful things that are very seductive. And if you forget about, or if you don't have an idea to begin with, it is very easy to be seduced and that is not a good use of the computer.”

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