Arthur Rothstein famous quotes

06-24-2025

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.
-- Arthur Rothstein

#Photography #Race #Language
Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all over the world and no translator is required. Photography is truly a universal language, transcending all boundaries of race, politics and nationality.
-- Arthur Rothstein

#Photography #Powerful #Mean
It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.
-- Arthur Rothstein

#Views #Photographer #Cold
I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe.
-- Arthur Rothstein

#Son #Wind #Breathe
A picture story is a sequence of images combined with text in such a way that pictures and words reinforce each other. They produce a planned, organized combination giving detailed account of an event, personality or aspect of life.
-- Arthur Rothstein

#Giving #Personality #Events
In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the spectator.
-- Arthur Rothstein

#Ideas #Photographer #Process
...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the lighting, exposure and composition of the photograph.
-- Arthur Rothstein

#Photographer #Exposure #Should
It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.
-- Arthur Rothstein

#Reality #Lenses #Add

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Speak the language of the person you want to become.
We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

Arthur Rothstein famous quotes

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