Print Quotes - Page 5

• I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

  Julia Roberts

  Dental, Fame, Microscopes

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• You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. Gross, right? A bloody pulpy liquid mess. Look at it, try to make sense of it. Realize you can't. Because there is no sense. Ask your computer to print out a list of every lie you have ever told. Ask yourself how much of the universe you have ever really seen. Look in the mirror. Are you sure you're you? Are you sure you didn't slip out of yourself in the middle of the night, and someone else slipped into you, without you or you or any of you even noticing?

  Charles Yu

  Lying, Heart, Night

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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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• I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into my photographs beyond a mere recording. Yes, I've chosen the camera position, how I'm going to print the negative, the angel of the lens, what I'm going to include and exclude in the composition, so on and so forth. But, I'm still photographing a work of art, and I would rather leave it to others to comment on my work, as I just left it to you.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Photography, Art, Angel

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• The Bible is the voice of God in print.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Voice, Christian Inspirational

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

  Kiki Smith

  Spiritual, Thinking, Quality

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• The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

  Horace Greeley

  Important, Use, Mankind

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• The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Ministers, Should

  William Gurnall (1862). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...”, p.810

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• I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.

  Anna Sui

  Ideas, Whole

  "Designer Drop-In: Anna Sui". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 6, 2011.

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• My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of taking. At such times, I rely on intuitive, perceptual responses to guide me, using reason only after the final print is made to accept or reject the results of my work.

  Wynn Bullock

  Photography, Finals, Photographer

  Wynn Bullock, Raphael Shevelev (1993). “The enchanted landscape: photographs 1940-1975”, Aperture

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• At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the Water Buffalo? is a splendid story of comradeship in a time and place of constant peril, but it's Babbs's irrepressible exuberance and vast, affectionate good humor that make the story go. I love this novel.

  Ed McClanahan

  Years, America, Water

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• Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies of the resurrected Roman Empire. For 30 years I have been proclaiming this tremendous event over the air and in print.

  Herbert W. Armstrong

  Religious, Air, Years

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• I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

  Jim Hodges

  Growing Up, Writing, Emotional

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• When we were all getting ready to leave, I walked up to my grandfather and gave him a hug and kiss on the cheek. He wiped my lip print off with his palm and gave me a look. He doesn't like the boys in the family to touch him. But I'm very glad that I did it anyway in case he dies. I never got to do that with my Aunt Helen.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Kissing, Aunt, Boys

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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