#face

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing. ↗

— Duane Michals

#art #invention #nothing #photography #surfaces

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#day #end #end of the day #face #man

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene. ↗

— Jay Roach

#after #because #becomes #bit #composure

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces. ↗

— Alain Robert

#danger #element #even #faces #feeling

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you. ↗

— Edward G. Robinson

#deliver #face #face value #i #know

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. ↗

— Romain Rolland

#days #dream #dreams #earliest #earth

Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them. ↗

— Marion Ross

#hearing #loss #make #number #person

I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking. ↗

— Gena Rowlands

#exactly #face #i #i can #looking

Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home? ↗

— Erno Rubik

#back #big #big challenge #came #challenge

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#earth #first #kinds #matter #near