Nickolas Muray quotes

“Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.”
-- Nickolas Muray

Source : Nickolas Muray (1978). “Muray's celebrity portraits of the twenties and thirties: 135 photographs”, Dover Pubns

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“The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.”

“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

“The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”

“I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.”

“That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.”

Source : Carsten Jensen (2011). “We, the Drowned”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.”

Source : "Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream'" by Alex Duval Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2011.