Bert Stern on camera
Bert Stern8 quotes“The photographer is trying to get the prettiest moment of a life in his camera.”
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There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic?
Bert SternBert Stern 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.
Bert SternBert Stern I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected.
Bert SternBert Stern 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.
Bert SternBert Stern I think all my pictures are ideas, and they’re ideas made into images.
Bert SternBert Stern Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.
Bert SternBert Stern 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.
Bert SternBert Stern
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Sadness shoots a bullet straight at your heart and love buys you time.
Shelby CaudleShelby Caudle Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson It’s been a long time since we said goodbye and yet the echoes of it are still ringing in our ears.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.
Jonny OxJonny Ox To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
Bell HooksBell Hooks
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I am semi-ambivalent about being on camera – sort of low-key. I don’t like being on camera stuff that much.
Adam CarollaAdam Carolla The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
Edvard MunchEdvard Munch If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer I remember weeping behind the camera, because I was so moved by the way they connected.
Abigail DisneyAbigail Disney … photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated – as though it had created itself.
Abigail Solomon GodeauAbigail Solomon Godeau I grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
Abel FerraraAbel Ferrara I have received the digital camera as a blessing. It has really changed my life as a filmmaker, because I don’t use my camera anymore as a camera. I don’t feel it as a camera.
Abbas KiarostamiAbbas Kiarostami The theater and film, they’re like two completely different mediums.
Abby BrammellAbby Brammell