After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

Fay Godwin

After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

Fay Godwin

And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.

Fay Godwin

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

Fay Godwin

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

Fay Godwin

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

Fay Godwin

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

Fay Godwin

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

Fay Godwin

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

Fay Godwin

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

Fay Godwin

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

Fay Godwin

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

Fay Godwin

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

Fay Godwin

I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

Fay Godwin

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

Fay Godwin

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

Fay Godwin

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

Fay Godwin

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

Fay Godwin

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Emanuel Celler

To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.

Geezer Butler

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

Patricia Hewitt

Every single book is a challenge.

Nora Roberts

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

Suzanne Fields

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

Ted Levine

I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.

Woody Harrelson

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Hillary Clinton

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Marsha Sinetar

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

Muhammad Yunus

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.

Tom Jenkinson

I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.

Corin Nemec

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

Trevor Nunn

I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.

Talib Kweli

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

Morgan Freeman

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

Andrea Martin

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

Alex Lowe

Fay Godwin

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

Thomas Kinkade

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.

Humphrey Lyttelton

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Michael Medved

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

Terrence Howard

The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.

Timothy Radcliffe

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.

William Bennett

The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.

Itzhak Perlman

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

Donny Osmond

The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.

Frank Luntz

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

Jeff Bingaman