Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Polidori

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American photographer Robert Polidori.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Robert Polidori is a Canadian-American photographer known for his large-scale color images of architecture, urban environments and interiors. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Martin-Gropius-Bau museum (Berlin), and Instituto Moreira Salles. His photographs are also included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Château de Versailles, Centre Pompidou (Paris), and Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), as well as many private collections.

American - Photographer | Born: February 10, 1951

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I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.

Robert Polidori

My belief is that you should take stills of what doesn't seem to move, and take movies or videos of [what] does.

Robert Polidori

I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.

Robert Polidori

Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.

Robert Polidori

I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.

Robert Polidori

I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying the human form. I respond that I do better by portraying traces of character and intentions of human volition that no mug or body shot can ever exude.

Robert Polidori

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Polidori

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