Bert Stern quotes
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“There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic? Nobody has that vulnerability any more. We turn to child models in an instinctive search for that innocence and freshness, but they don’t have the deep feminine sexuality that came from Marilyn like light.”
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“I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected. I was very lucky because she was the most beautiful woman in the world at the time. I photographed her very quickly, she was not easy as a model, but her beauty transcended anything I had seen before.”
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“I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.”
-- Bert SternSource : "Camera Culture: Interview with Photographer Bert Stern". Duggal Interview, duggal.com. August 23, 2012.
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“You know, the Chinese don't like to be photographed because they believe that a part of their life is being taken away by the photographer. And in a way, they're right. The photographer is trying to get the prettiest moment of a life in his camera.”
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“Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.”
-- Bert Stern
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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Source : "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.
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Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books
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Source : Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
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“Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.”
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