Art Shay quotes

Art Shay quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A photograph is a biography of a moment.”
-- Art Shay

Source : "Photographs tell story of decades-long romance". Interview with Dean Reynolds, www.cbsnews.com. February 13, 2014.

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“Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.”

Source : ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1910). “SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON”
“My lectures were highly esteemed, but I am of opinion my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.”
“In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.”
“I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.”
“Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.”
“When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.”
“All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.”
“It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.”
“You don't make a photograph just with a camera”
“I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.”

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