Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
Yousuf KarshRead
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Character is shaped by challenges and tough times, much like how a photograph is developed in the dark.
This quote by Yousuf Karsh suggests that just as a photograph requires darkness to develop and reveal its true image, a person's character is often forged through difficult and challenging experiences. These hardships contribute to growth and depth, highlighting that adversity plays a crucial role in shaping who we become.
Themes
CharacterDarknessDevelopmentAdversityGrowth
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech to a group of students about resilience.
More from Yousuf Karsh
All quotes βI have found that great people do have in common. . .an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.
Yousuf KarshRead
I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.
Yousuf KarshRead
There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record
Yousuf KarshRead
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
Yousuf KarshRead
Similar quotes
Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
Eliezer YudkowskyRead
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose.
Kimberle Williams CrenshawRead
The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, - you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, - I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.
Henry David ThoreauRead
How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!
Nikos KazantzakisRead
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
Alexander MaclarenRead
Money isn't automatically freedom. You need to look carefully at what you're doing to earn the money before you can conclude that you are, in practice, free. This is a cost-benefit analysis we should all perform on our own lives.
John LanchesterRead