V.I. Arnold Quotes

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

Themes recur again and again in my work.

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .

Hit it hard, go find it and hit it hard again.

Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

Ideas visuales combinadas con tecnología e interpretación personal es igual a fotografía

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.

Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

The living need charity more than the dead.

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

Greatness is a spiritual condition.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.

How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.

The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world, but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.

I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately.

They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

The first sound after a silence should always be your very best.

The Arabs are terrorists and Israel is making the world a safer place.Well done Israel.

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.