A Quote by Michael Kenna

Instant gratification in photography is not something that I need or desire. I find that the long, slow journey to the final print captivates me far more.

Michael Kenna

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Michael Kenna
English - Photographer
Born: 1953

Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.

Donald Barthelme

In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there is not patience for the long. Slow rebuilding process: implementing after school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas

Dan Hill

In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.

Dan Hill

I find that when one has worked long enough, technical know-how becomes almost irrelevant. In photography, it's not difficult to reach a technical level where you don't need to think about the technique any more. I think there is far too much literature and far too much emphasis upon the techniques of photography. The make of camera and type of film we happen to use has little bearing on the results.

Michael Kenna

I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

Bat for Lashes

I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

Ryan McGinley

More and more, I find that I love doing comedies; that instant gratification that you get on stage when they laugh at you feels really good.

Taylor Louderman

I think what you have to do in print is to create even more memorable images and more memorable pieces because what one consumes online or in social has a much shorter shelf life, so to speak, so what print has to have is no more weight, but it has to be something that you can't find so easily online. It has to really stand for print.

Anna Wintour

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

Greg Ginn

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

Greg Ginn

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

Ian Bogost

Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

Joe McNally

I need instant gratification.

Barbra Streisand

Instant gratification takes too long.

Carrie Fisher

I am single, and my mother is worried. She wants me to get married. Now that I'm in my 30s, I can't wait for the work-load to slow down. I need to find someone who will accompany me in my professional journey.

Gautam Rode

Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff

Darren Hardy

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