Peter Turnley quotes

I continue to hope and believe that the best stories and photographs are yet to occur. My quest for them will certainly require that I keep my head up and my eyes and heart open as I walk down the street.
-- Peter Turnley

#Believe #Heart #Eye

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I photograph are always more important to me than the process of photography itself.
-- Peter Turnley

#Photography #People #Mind

French Kiss - A Love Letter to Paris, is a tribute to many of the wonderful moments of romance, beauty, hope, and love that I have witnessed and been inspired by in Paris, my adopted home, over the past 40 years. I believe that photography is ultimately about sharing. I am excited to share, with the world, these moments of the heart that have touched my own, in this most beautiful city, Paris
-- Peter Turnley

#Beautiful #Photography #Believe

We hear a lot about the notion of objectivity, and I'm not sure I know what that is. I know what fairness is. I know what honesty is. And I know what the heart and emotions are. I think those are the things I particularly want to embrace. I would not want anyone to take away my right and my ability to communicate my feelings about the things that I see.
-- Peter Turnley

#Honesty #Heart #Thinking

Photographers do themselves a disservice by talking too much about the equipment they use. Consequently people don't take them seriously as creators in their own right. When people talk to writers about their work, they ask about their ideas and inspirations. When they talk to photographers, they ask about what cameras or film they use. That's wrong - as wrong as asking a writer what pencil and laptop he uses.
-- Peter Turnley

#Inspiration #Talking #Ideas

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.

The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.