Patrick Calder

quotes

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

- Jacques Barzun

Photography is the embalmers craft. When I photograph something my camera kills it, and I must gently and with love restore it with the life I witnessed with my own eyes, so that others can see what I saw. To do less would be merely to exhibit a corpse.

- Clayton Cubitt

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

- Bertrand Russell

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

- Diane Arbus

Mamihlapinatapai: a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.

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