Dennis Stock Quotations

I did not know anything about his history as an actor in New York. He was a total stranger to me. He was very low-key.

I realized what a special actor he was, so I proposed to Life magazine to do a visual biography on Dean, who exemplified the kind of actors who were starting to become popular back then.

It was pretty easy to work with Dean in Indiana. He was relaxed enough there. Besides, we both found we had the same sense of humor and we deepened the friendship.

If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.

At the incredible pace most of us live, the arrested image becomes of maximum necessity.

The goal for the photographer is be visually articulate.

The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many.

Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras, making the journey an enlightened experience. My emphasis has mainly been on affirmative reactions to human behavior and a strong attraction to the beauty in nature.

I really wasn't-how shall I say it-singly interested in Dean, but I was interested in the origins of a person who does such a style of acting.