Rene Burri quotes

“One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.”
-- Rene Burri

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“I never thought I would become a photographer.”
-- Rene Burri

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“What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.”
-- Rene Burri

Source : "René Burri, Photographer of Picasso and Che, Dies at 81" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2014.

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“A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.”
-- Rene Burri

Source : "Photographer René Burri's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2010.

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“On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.”
-- Rene Burri

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“To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.”
-- Rene Burri

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“A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.”
-- Rene Burri

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“Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.”

“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”

“My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.”

“I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

“There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.”

Source : "HuffPost Interview: Aidan Quinn talks about Sarah’s Key". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2011.

“As with every young player these days, Ronaldo is 18.”

“We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.”

“With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.”

“Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.”

“Work, finish, publish.”

Source : Michael Faraday, F. James (1999). “The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4: 1849-1855”, p.942, IET