Print Quotes - Page 12

• Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.

  Jim Rogers

  My Thoughts

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• I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Quality, Exposure

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• The easy glamour of the French Riviera in the late 1960s - inspired by Romy Schneider's character in La Piscine - mixed with garden elements. Blueprint, botanical, lattice, Queen Anne's lace and folly prints are paired with cleaner silhouettes and proportions in a fresh palette of green, white and coral.

  Tory Burch

  Queens, Character, Garden

  FaceBook post by Tory Burch from Sep 12, 2013

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• Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.

  James A. Michener

  Book, Writing, Self

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• Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the work The print and a proper one is the only completed photograph, whether it is specifically shaded for reproduction, or for a museum wall.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Notebook, Wall, Museums

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• In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the darkness, and many of my photographs are that way. It is the way I see photographically. For practical reasons, I think it looks better in print too.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Dark, Thinking, Keys

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• Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of rich dark reds and Lincoln greens against fishscale greys and arctic blues.

  John Keegan

  Strong, Dark, Battle

  John Keegan (1983). “The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme”, p.59, Penguin

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• Speaking of the motto of the New York Times, "All the news that's fit to print:" It is hard to think of any group of seven words that have aroused more newspaper controversy.

  Gerald W. Johnson

  New York, Thinking, Groups

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• A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print -Reptiles- you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madam, if that's the way you see it, so be it.'

  M. C. Escher

  Crazy, Illustration, Reptiles

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• I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it sometimes appears. My subjects are also often playful: I cannot refrain from demonstrating the nonsensicalness of some of what we take to be irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure to deliberately mix together objects of two and three dimensions, surface and spatial relationships, and to make fun of gravity.

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Fun, Two

  "Escher on Escher: exploring the infinite". Book by J. W. Vermeulen, H. N. Abrams, 1989.

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• Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the crystallographers, have had considerable influence on my work of the last twenty years. The laws of the phenomena around us--order, regularity, cyclical repetition, and renewals--have assumed greater and greater importance for me. The awareness of their presence gives me peace and provides me with support. I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Years, Law

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• Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.

  Walter J. Ong

  Closure, States, Found

  Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.129, Routledge

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• Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

  Chuck Close

  Innovation, Painting, Results

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• I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

  Herb Ritts

  Black And White, Luxury, Labs

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• TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling

  Tina Brown

  Anchors, Hustle, Logistics

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• If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Running, Secret, Way

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• I was burned so many times that I stopped giving interviews. In other words, if my words ended up in print, they were twisted in an indescribable fashion.

  Jim Garrison

  Fashion, Giving, Interviews

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• Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

  Nick Flynn

  Writing, Needs, Feels

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.191, Faber & Faber

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• Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and then forget them.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Christian, Religious

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.58, Bethany House

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• I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself to believe in its worth. Young men are often guilt-ridden about pleasure, and I suppose I was no different. I suppose I thought that to pass away one's time in such places, to spend one's skills celebrating things so intangible and transient, I suppose I thought it all rather wasteful, all rather decadent. It's hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Believe, Men, Skills

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2012). “An Artist of the Floating World”, p.150, Vintage

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• Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

  Chinua Achebe

  Reality, Giving, Literature

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.215, Anchor

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• I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.

  Mario Cantone

  Book, Scripts, Copies

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• I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.

  M. C. Escher

  Beauty, Art, Brother

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• Collage – SS13 offers a very controlled and pure do-it-yourself attitude. The collection shows a juxtaposition of very different materials, prints and colours, therefore giving the wearer a possibility to combine the garments in different ways.

  Raf Simons

  Attitude, Giving, Different

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• I have always been drawn to the beauty of things designed to function. Mixing technical pieces with more traditional prints and patterns creates not only a quality experience, but a look that is unique, and for me, very exciting.

  Ralph Lauren

  Unique, Quality, Mixing

  FaceBook post by Ralph Lauren from Sep 17, 2013

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