Ritts Rattan Quotes

#1. I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#2. Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#3. When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#4. While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon. #Quote by Gregory Maguire

#5. It's important to let your subjects be themselves. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#6. Each time I did assignments or editorials, I realized that I wanted to do something more. I saw that it wasn't just about the clothes. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#7. My condition is the same without camera, like fish without water. #Quote by Lovinder Rattan

#8. I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#9. Many people who excel are self-taught. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#10. Today a lot of things are so celebrity-oriented; it's only because it's celebrity and the photograph is lost. To me it's important to have an image that is a photograph first, not about necessarily who that person is. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#11. Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#12. If I gave this guy more time, there would be a swimming pool and rattan furniture. #Quote by Joe Teti

#13. Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#14. Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#15. For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#16. Oh, once you've been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn't want you back." Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and adjusted her hat just so. "We - by whom I mean anyone over sixty - commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman's memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight. #Quote by David Mitchell

#17. I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#18. The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#19. It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#20. To me it's just going for the moment that counts. Sometimes, I'll have all the elements there, and I like to play and push something, and to me, in the end, you do achieve things that you're not aware of in the beginning, even though you're there trying to get them. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#21. Kenzie approached sheepishly, one half of the broken rattan in her hand. "Sorry," she said, holding up the ruined weapon with a helpless gesture. "It ... uh ... died a noble death. I can only hope it gave that thing a wicked tongue splinter. #Quote by Julie Kagawa

#22. I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#23. What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#24. I like form and shape and strength in pictures. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#25. I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#26. I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#27. The Rat spent many tranquil afternoons settled in his rattan chair. When he began to drift off, he could feel time pass through his body like gently flowing water. As he sat, hours, days, weeks went by.
Occasionally, ripples of emotion would lap against his heart as if to remind him of something. When that happened, he closed his eyes, clamped his heart shut, and waited for the emotions to recede. It was only a brief sensation, like the shadows that signal the coming of night. Once the ripple had passed, the quiet calm returned as if nothing untoward had ever taken place. #Quote by Haruki Murakami

#28. Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth. #Quote by Herb Ritts

#29. On some days nothing seemed to go right, and then it would be: "All right, then, I know what you want. You've been asking for it the whole morning. Come along, you useless little slacker. Come into the study." And then whack, whack, whack, whack, and back one would come, red-wealed and smarting - in later years Sim had abandoned his riding crop in favour of a thin rattan cane which hurt very much more - to settle down to work again. This did not happen very often, but I do remember, more than once being led out of the room in the middle of a Latin sentence, receiving a beating and then going straight ahead with the same sentence, just like that. #Quote by George Orwell

#30. Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow. #Quote by Herb Ritts