Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Avedon

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

Richard Avedon

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Umberto Eco

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

Robert Capa

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

Robert Capa

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

Robert Capa

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

Robert Capa

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

Robert Capa

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Alexander Milinkevich

It is important that the Russian authorities realize that we are sincerely willing to respect Russia's interests. But we are not going to sacrifice our interests, either.

Robert E. Lee

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Robert Cray

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

Rob Zombie

I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.

Richard O'Brien

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.

Richard P. Feynman

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

Justin Gatlin

Rain, sleet, snow? It doesn't matter. I'm going to come out blazing .

Bree Turner

I've done a lot of television, and there's no rehearsal process - you have to come to the set with your guns blazing and with a point of view.

John Stone

You can't come out with guns blazing when you got more guns than you can carry,

Bhagavad Gita

As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.

Lykke Li

My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance.

Sebastian Horsley

Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.

Adam McKay

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

Roy H. Williams

Both touchdowns came on the same play. I don't know what happened. I just saw Moss blazing down the seam.

Ben Hatfield

We can't see 2 miles underground. We didn't know if there was a blazing fire.