J.V. Cunningham Quotes

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.

To know God and to make Him known.

Don’t be one of those souls who says, ‘If only I had my life to live over.’ Live your life in such a way that once is enough.

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

The earth is one tiny part of a vast energy net work.

Magic is the projection of natural energies to produce needed effects.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.

I left hating the game of football…I never ever wanted to play football after that and I kind of rode off into the sunset.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.

She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.

What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.

No time in history has the Church of Jesus Christ gone down!

We get caught in our boxes-but when we pray outside of them, ask God, the impossible CAN be done.

What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?

The Son of God had missionary supporters

I wanted to see how fast you can go before it becomes nonsensical, a mess.

You can't find peace by avoiding life.

The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make

I listen to a piece of music and really get inside it and let it suggest a little universe to create.

What I've been doing in practice will carry over into the game.

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.

Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!

Being lost is the way, how else can you be found?

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

I don't know what love means.