Guy Le Querrec quotes

“A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.”
-- Guy Le Querrec

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“Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.”
-- Guy Le Querrec

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“Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.”

“You know what shows today are missing? Stars.”

“Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”

“Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.”

“I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.”

“I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.”

“I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.”

“Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures.”

“At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution.”

Source : Chris Burden, Alberta College of Art. Gallery (1976). “Chris Burden, February 18, 1976”

“An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.”