Neil Leifer quotes

Neil Leifer quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.”
-- Neil Leifer

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“You have to be ready for luck.”
-- Neil Leifer

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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."”
“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.”
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
“Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
“We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.”
“Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.”
“We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.”
“Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.”
“It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.”

Source : "Dwight Howard: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 17, 2011.
“The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.”

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