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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The beginnings of all things are small.

Plotinus

It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.

Philip Pullman

All things from the north are devilish.

Haruki Murakami

We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

Delta Goodrem

I can't be all things to everyone.

John Wesley

My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

Thales

Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.

Jack Kerouac

Something good will come of all things yet

Colin Channer

All things in the fulness of time