A Quote by Robert Genn

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Canadian - Artist
May 15, 1936 - May 27, 2014

All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave and the field slave. The house slave was the one who believed in the master, who had confidence in the master and usually was very friendly with the master. And usually he was also used by the master to try and keep the other slaves pacified.

Malcolm X

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

Ilya Ehrenburg

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

Walter Rodney

Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.

Jefferson Davis

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I used my mind, and then eventually the method I used allowed me to master my craft.

Tiger Woods

Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.

Albert Parsons

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

Glen Duncan

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

Ruth Bernhard

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

Oscar Wilde

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

Rabindranath Tagore

I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.

Alice Oswald

I am the descendant of slaves, of people that were born from a slave and a slave master.

Cory Booker

As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography is used - as pastiches of textiles are used in crazy-quilts - to form a mosaic. Whatever value the montage may have derives from painting rather than the camera.

Lewis Mumford

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