Douglas Huebler famous quotes

The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.
-- Douglas Huebler

#Interesting #Wish #Add

What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.
-- Douglas Huebler

#Way #Pointing

I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by a system. No esthetic choices are possible. Other people often make the photographs. It makes no difference.
-- Douglas Huebler

#Differences #People #Choices

I set up a system, and the system can catch part of what is happening in the world - what's going on in the world - an appearance in the world, and suspend that appearance itself from being important.... The work is about the system.
-- Douglas Huebler

#Important #World #Appearance

The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints.
-- Douglas Huebler

#Photography #Numbers #Doubt

I've spoken seriously, and I am very serious, but you know an awful lot of the work is meant to twist things to the point of almost absurdity. I don't want to celebrate absurdity, but I do mean to challenge a lot of premises.
-- Douglas Huebler

#Mean #Challenges #Twists

Every photograph is a realization of one of the possibilities contained within the program of the camera. The number of such possibilities is large, but it is nevertheless finite. It is the sum of all those photographs that can be taken by a camera.
-- Douglas Huebler

#Taken #Numbers #Cameras

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.