Raymond Depardon quotes

Raymond Depardon quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.”
-- Raymond Depardon

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“The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.”
-- Raymond Depardon

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“I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.”
-- Raymond Depardon

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“It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer”
-- Raymond Depardon

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“I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.”
-- Raymond Depardon

Source : "Artforum International" Interview with Miriam Rosen, February 2001.

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“The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs.”
-- Raymond Depardon

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“I like to be on my own when I look at my contact sheets, because I'm often disappointed... But as years go by we become proud of our old contact sheets. They are a tool that allows us to fight against time.”
-- Raymond Depardon

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“When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done, and Pennebaker answered, Nothing except shots in the street. Dylan asked to see them, and he agreed to let him do the film.”
-- Raymond Depardon

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“How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."”
“As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
“In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.99, Image Continuum Press
“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”
“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”
“I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.”
“Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.”
“Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.”
“When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.”

Source : "Alesha Dixon: My Mum Taught Me That Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" by Leigh Purves, www.express.co.uk. August 05, 2013.

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