James Nachtwey Quotes

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

Naked Truth needs no shift.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

I'm just straightforward.

I feel like when you just say what the truth is, you can't really comment more than that.

The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

I don't want to be mysterious.

When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life.

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.

The words of truth are simple.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

I've never been a fan of euphemism.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

Tell it like it is.

When you look at my campaign, I don't go around sugarcoating things.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence.

I'm saying to you that one of the great characteristics of the great American, the American people, is our historic ability to be straightforward, plainspoken, say what we mean, and mean what we say.

I say things directly and to the point because I don't know anything else.